Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 14:16:34 -0700 From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: you are in an fs with millions of small files Message-ID: <17059.27570.462035.618336@roam.psg.com> References: <17059.7150.269428.448187@roam.psg.com> <42A36767.6060301@samsco.org>
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>> 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? > See Suleiman Souhal's patch to re-introduce IFS. IFS is ideal when the > naming of files is not important, but quick access to 'zillions' of > files is important. The downside is that your apps need to be written > to know how to use it (which isn't hard, but isn't portable either). the app is apache randy
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