Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 06:45:38 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: MikeM <MyRaQ@mgm51.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lots of files in a directory Message-ID: <20030103044538.GB3132@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <200301021213290839.0A719772@home.24cl.com> <200301020901270548.09C1C68B@sentry.24cl.com> References: <20030102084356.R18514-100000@atlas.home> <200301021213290839.0A719772@home.24cl.com> <200301020901270548.09C1C68B@sentry.24cl.com>
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On 2003-01-02 09:01, MikeM <MyRaQ@mgm51.com> wrote: > I'm considering setting up my server as a mirror site for the freedb.org > lookup database. Unfortunately, I've seem to have run into a stumbling > block. The server app requires over 250,000 files in a single directory. > Each file is about 2k in size. On 2003-01-02 12:13, MikeM <myraq@mgm51.com> wrote: > On 1/2/03 at 8:58 AM Mikko Ty?l?j?rvi wrote: > > It can be argued that the application is poorly designed... > > There's no arguing. It *is* poorly designed. I would have used a > hash to spread the files across multiple directories. > Unfortunately, I didn't design it. You are probably hitting the limit of fragments that are allowed on a filesystem and "time optimization" becomes "space optimization". Are you getting entries in your system logs like the following? optimization changed from TIME to SPACE - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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