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Subject: Re: ZFS and large directories - caveat report
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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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