From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 5 18:17:07 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01E1616A41C for ; Sun, 5 Jun 2005 18:17:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from smtp4.server.rpi.edu (smtp4.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA3B443D4C for ; Sun, 5 Jun 2005 18:17:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp4.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j55IH2EO013840; Sun, 5 Jun 2005 14:17:03 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <17059.7150.269428.448187@roam.psg.com> References: <17059.7150.269428.448187@roam.psg.com> Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 14:17:01 -0400 To: Randy Bush , freebsd-fs@freebsd.org From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) on 128.113.2.4 Cc: Subject: Re: you are in an fs with millions of small files X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 18:17:07 -0000 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