From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 5 15:47:15 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 BDCA116A447; Sun, 5 Jun 2005 15:47:13 +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 9531D43D58; Sun, 5 Jun 2005 15:47:13 +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 1DexLF-000Jbb-9c; Sun, 05 Jun 2005 15:47:13 +0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=roam.psg.com.psg.com) by roam.psg.com with esmtp (Exim 4.51 (FreeBSD)) id 1DexL9-000NLZ-Ey; Sun, 05 Jun 2005 08:47:07 -0700 From: Randy Bush MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17059.7801.923721.861116@roam.psg.com> Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 08:47:05 -0700 To: Arne "Wörner" References: <17059.7150.269428.448187@roam.psg.com> <20050605154415.77738.qmail@web41204.mail.yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Current 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 15:47:15 -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? > I say, do you think a database might be a solution (e. g. mysql)? no. i am trying to do a site mirror, not tell the site how to organize their data. randy