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Date:      Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:29:21 +1100
From:      Andrew Snow <andrew@modulus.org>
To:        Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Performance with hundreds of nullfs mounts?
Message-ID:  <49B72201.7050409@modulus.org>
In-Reply-To: <9bbcef730903101927l3134ce66vf959354914fe4754@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <9bbcef730903101927l3134ce66vf959354914fe4754@mail.gmail.com>

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Ivan Voras wrote:
> I seem to remember hearing an anecdote somewhere that using hundreds
> (or thousands?) nullfs mounts for jails results in unreasonably bad
> file system access performance. Does somebody have this kind of setup
> / is it true?

I'm using about several readonly nullfs mounts per jail: usr, bin sbin, 
lib, libexec, with ~20 jails per machine, and the speed is just fine, on 
7.0-STABLE.


- Andrew



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