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Linux ext3 Filesystem" Optimize Directories / File Access Time

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How do I improve my file server performance. I've many large files in directories and how do I speed up access time? The -D option causes e2fsck to try to optimize all directories, either by reindexing them if the filesystem supports directory indexing, or by sorting and compressing directories for smaller directories.

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