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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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