Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 11:09:17 -0500 From: Dan <dan-freebsd-questions@ourbrains.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UFS2 limits Message-ID: <20081109160917.GA4223@ourbrains.org> In-Reply-To: <20081109024046.GB27423@icarus.home.lan> References: <50261.1226194851@people.net.au> <20081109024046.GB27423@icarus.home.lan>
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Jeremy Chadwick(koitsu@FreeBSD.org)@2008.11.08 18:40:46 -0800: > I don't want to change the topic of discussion, but I *highly* recommend > you ***stop*** whatever it is you're doing that is creating such a > directory structure. Software which has to iterate through that > directory using opendir() and readdir() will get slower and slower as > time goes on. On a related note there are filesystems that handle many files/directories very quickly. They use alternate tree data structures that behave quicker. ReiserFS is one of them. I believe XFS does quite well too. FreeBSD should have adapted XFS in addition to ZFS. ZFS is a resource monster. Shame, really. XFS is freely available in Linux for a number of years. Hammer, the new FS for FreeBSDs is available for DragonflyBSD.
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