From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 6 03:56:36 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8C4B1065675 for ; Sat, 6 Aug 2011 03:56:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 12-207-105-211.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 955102001E2; Sat, 6 Aug 2011 03:56:36 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4E3CBB74.9020208@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 20:56:36 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110706 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel O'Connor References: <20110802094226.GA93114@icarus.home.lan> <42039B84-D6CE-4780-AA70-8500B1B32036@gsoft.com.au> <4E37CD13.1070402@digsys.bg> <6E45CE57-491E-4077-B14C-751C73647EFC@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <6E45CE57-491E-4077-B14C-751C73647EFC@gsoft.com.au> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.2pre OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS directory with a large number of files X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2011 03:56:36 -0000 On 08/05/2011 20:38, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > Ahh, but OP had moved these files away and performance was still poor.. _that_ is the bug. I'm no file system expert, but it seems to me the key questions are; how long does it take the system to recover from this condition, and if it's more than N $periods is that a problem? We can't stop users from doing wacky stuff, but the system should be robust in the face of this. -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/