[mythtv] Re:Channel change speed

[Edward Wildgoose]

> > It's also very slow to handle the gentoo portage database which is pretty
> > much just 60,000 small files chucked into a hierarchical directory
> > structure.  Not sure if reiserfs would be faster here since it's basically
> > a directory enumeration task, however, I plan to try a loop back partition
> > with reiserfs to see.
> 
> Depends on what you operations are performed on those 60,000 small files.
> One this is sure; reiserfs (with tail packing) will use significantly less
> space to store them.

rsync usually.  Or search to find all those with a certain name.  I guess this comes down to how efficiently you can enumerate the directory in practice.