From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 10 22:59:18 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1BDD106566B for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:59:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f173.google.com (mail-qy0-f173.google.com [209.85.221.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AB008FC19 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:59:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com) Received: by qyk3 with SMTP id 3so1680194qyk.3 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:59:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=4A+8N2yGNF+rwmF03LF7y9qR9Z+8UtMr3KNM7t9mrts=; b=Vg9Mf2BYT+3w9K483vV7aJPPIf1vChD42K0uUFQnh6FHgd/2P4pPmkSW8NVfNl9tBI Kq8OvUEUja0qZmzJ25bJ3NeI+d08Bvn+kZEj/qr2aG/A8W/ebAqHgTTANLyJ51N/YIx5 Lp0wMCLgvrZsbL156/uhGzTvh6CSUiDGHZ32U= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=AGO6xGx+ed0tRC9LOgZQq4stuyp7DWgCwsrXuE/QjbreliSE7YLY6WwPnTBMtDCVqe KTK73w5SFutQni8zfnFmmAbThKSKVXWiFn3Ub9kGaULrJPFLvsjaOAoCXFy2y2vyvmEg sh8kbaDqSZAXlrQMV1fjCpByxCtuetKb2evqA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.89.202 with SMTP id f10mr452375qcm.71.1244674757671; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:59:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <26face530906081813x5abd6d28i27137b76b0be41c@mail.gmail.com> References: <26face530906081813x5abd6d28i27137b76b0be41c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:59:17 -0700 Message-ID: <26face530906101559p28f4d56dl287d4b6026454d2b@mail.gmail.com> From: Kelly Jones To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Need a filesystem with "unlimited" inodes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:59:18 -0000 On 6/8/09, Kelly Jones wrote: > What UFS-like filesystem has unlimited inodes, but is a drop-in > replacement for ext3, and is fairly easy to configure? Thanks to everyone who replied. I'm using 100+ rented cloud servers to do stuff for me and rsync the results back to a server I own. I'm sure I could use a db or zip file somehow, but my goal is to get the data centralized ASAP, since I'm paying per hour for the rented cloud servers. DBs and ZIP files would take more time. Once I have the data on my server, I can take as much time as I want. My problem: I ran out of inodes during the rsync process, and had to re-do some of the work, wasting some of my cloud servers time/money. I ended up settling on zfs. It hung hard once (had to reboot the server), which scares me, but it otherwise behaves very well. With compress=gzip-9, it's even saving me disk space. Yes, I realize cloud computing is cheap (and I'm actually still on a free trial), but I value efficiency. -- We're just a Bunch Of Regular Guys, a collective group that's trying to understand and assimilate technology. We feel that resistance to new ideas and technology is unwise and ultimately futile.