Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 14:15:02 -0400 From: "Matt Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Randy Bush" <randy@psg.com>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Arne_W=F6rner?= <arne_woerner@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: you are in an fs with millions of small files Message-ID: <003701c569fa$7e4e0530$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <17059.7150.269428.448187@roam.psg.com><20050605154415.77738.qmail@web41204.mail.yahoo.com> <17059.7801.923721.861116@roam.psg.com>
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> >> to mirror someone's stuff, i need an fs which is happy with > >> a jillion small files. they're linux geeks, so suggested > >> reiserfs. but that appears (from -current's > >> /sys/i386/conf/NOTES) to only have read-only support on > >> freebsd. is there another path? > > I say, do you think a database might be a solution (e. g. mysql)? > > no. i am trying to do a site mirror, not tell the site how to > organize their data. UFS[2] will be just fine -- but you will need to ensure that you have more inodes than the default and increase dirhash to keep performance at a reasonable level. -- Matt Emmerton
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