From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 7 02:54:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C26D916B1FB for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2006 02:49:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dud@dudcore.net) Received: from mercury.maxterhost.com (t168.1paket.com [83.133.127.172]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C254443D62 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2006 02:49:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dud@dudcore.net) Received: from [10.0.0.4] (89.80-203-112.nextgentel.com [80.203.112.89]) by mercury.maxterhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 633B610D8521 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2006 04:49:50 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <44863ECD.8010104@dudcore.net> Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 04:49:49 +0200 From: Dag Rune Sneeggen User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5 (X11/20060309) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Heavy creation and deletion of symlinks X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: dud@dudcore.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 02:54:19 -0000 I am currently planning an FTP-based service which requires a custom application to run which will create hundreds (if not thousands) of symlinks in various directories per hour. There will probably also be a cronjob running to delete symlinks periodically. The main purpose of the server will be medium to heavy traffic FTP serving. So my question is; how does such activity affect the general health and operation of FreeBSD? Also, the health of the harddrive(s) which will most likely be SATA disks. It is my understanding that symlinks only affects the file allocation table, and not the physical data blocks? This would mean that the impact isn't so terrible, as the changes will be contained to a relatively small part of the beginning of the disk, correct? -- Dag Rune Sneeggen Romolslia 23B 7029 Trondheim NORWAY -- dud@dudcore.net