From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 5 20:59:34 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCFC616A41C; Sun, 5 Jun 2005 20:59:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70DEF43D1F; Sun, 5 Jun 2005 20:59:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from [172.28.176.26] ([12.174.84.3]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j55L5b9W047516; Sun, 5 Jun 2005 15:05:41 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <42A36767.6060301@samsco.org> Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 14:58:15 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050218 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Randy Bush References: <17059.7150.269428.448187@roam.psg.com> In-Reply-To: <17059.7150.269428.448187@roam.psg.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=3.8 tests=none autolearn=failed version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: you are in an fs with millions of small files X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 20:59:34 -0000 Randy Bush wrote: > 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? > > randy > 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). Scott