From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 5 21:16:41 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 5A3E316A41C for ; Sun, 5 Jun 2005 21:16:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from randy@psg.com) Received: from rip.psg.com (rip.psg.com [147.28.0.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32FEB43D54 for ; Sun, 5 Jun 2005 21:16:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from randy@psg.com) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=roam.psg.com) by rip.psg.com with esmtp (Exim 4.50 (FreeBSD)) id 1Df2U4-0001hl-Ms; Sun, 05 Jun 2005 21:16:40 +0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=roam.psg.com.psg.com) by roam.psg.com with esmtp (Exim 4.51 (FreeBSD)) id 1Df2Ty-000JSG-VB; Sun, 05 Jun 2005 14:16:35 -0700 From: Randy Bush MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17059.27570.462035.618336@roam.psg.com> Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 14:16:34 -0700 To: Scott Long References: <17059.7150.269428.448187@roam.psg.com> <42A36767.6060301@samsco.org> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org 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 21:16:41 -0000 >> 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