Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 14:17:01 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: you are in an fs with millions of small files Message-ID: <p06210230bec8f1a3c0d9@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <17059.7150.269428.448187@roam.psg.com> References: <17059.7150.269428.448187@roam.psg.com>
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At 8:36 AM -0700 6/5/05, Randy Bush wrote: >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? Do individual directories have jillions of files, or is a a large tree of files? Could you break it up into multiple partitions for your mirror of it, and 'newfs' each of those to hold plenty of extra inodes? -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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