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Date:      Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:46:18 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>
To:        Martin Matuska <mm@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS and large directories - caveat report
Message-ID:  <alpine.GSO.2.01.1107211645180.5109@freddy.simplesystems.org>
In-Reply-To: <4E286F1F.6010502@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <j09hk8$svj$1@dough.gmane.org> <4E286F1F.6010502@FreeBSD.org>

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On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Martin Matuska wrote:

> Quoting:
> ... The default record size ZFS utilizes is 128K, which is good for many
> storage servers that will harbor larger files. However, when dealing
> with many files that are only a matter of tens of kilobytes, or even
> bytes, considerable slowdown will result. ZFS can easily alter the

I don't see how this can be.  Short files are written as short blocks 
so the maximum block size should not matter.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
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