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Date:      Tue, 15 Jun 2004 20:17:05 +0200
From:      Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net>
To:        Eugene <el2000@km.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Storing a lot of little files
Message-ID:  <20040615181705.GA42947@schweikhardt.net>
In-Reply-To: <40CEFAA8.00B9A6.08476@e-post02.e-se.ru>
References:  <40CEFAA8.00B9A6.08476@e-post02.e-se.ru>

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I'm just brainstorming here, but...

#   I need to store a lot (hundreds of millions) of very little files (from 8 bytes
#   to 50K) in my filesystem.
#   What's the best way to optimize it?

What about not using a file system at all, but a database that maps
file names to contents? I'm not sure how well dbm(3) scales, or other
similar "simple" databases, but it might prove workable.

Regards,

	Jens
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