From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 14 9:33:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4976B37B416 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 09:33:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 28044 invoked by uid 100); 14 Nov 2001 17:33:39 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15346.43763.915918.810313@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 11:33:39 -0600 To: "Stan Brown" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alternative filesytems? In-Reply-To: <92217463@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stan Brown types: > I was wondering if any of the alternative filesystems curently being > developed for Linux had been ported to FreeBSD? > > I have an application for storing 10's of thousands of image files in the > same directory, and am seeinf (of cource) absyml preformance. I here > Reiserfs (sp) will handle this mutch better for instance. > > Sugestions? Change your application to use a sane directory strategy? There have been mutterings about porting xfs, but I don't think it's actually happening. I'm not sure it would help with your problem, either. On the other hand, the directory caching code in the development branch will help with that kind of thing without needing another file system. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message