Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 12:19:18 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: Tom Arnold <xyzzy@sysabend.org> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Large filesystems with massive inodes on BSD5.2 Message-ID: <20040110121707.J36595@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20040110010514.GA79577@moo.sysabend.org> References: <20040108002627.GH22041@moo.sysabend.org> <20040110010514.GA79577@moo.sysabend.org>
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On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Tom Arnold wrote: > On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 04:56:39PM -0800, Doug White wrote: > > Unless you're going to fill the filesystem with 512 byte files, you > > probably have the sizes set too low. You're probably OK with the default > > of 4096 bytes/inode. > > Its actually gonna be filled with gzipped spam which we find seems to be > under 1k. 512bytes is probably too small, but even doubling the fragment > and inode size to 1024 still leaves me with a billion inodes... This is a really inefficient filing system for this kind of data .. you are really going to be sorry if you ever have to move it. Can you stick it in a database, or combine it into larger files? The gzip overhead is going to consume a significant fraction of the space. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
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