Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 13:37:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Josh Brooks <user@mail.econolodgetulsa.com> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: per-directory quotas possible on 5.x ? Message-ID: <20030630131951.L57224-100000@mail.econolodgetulsa.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030630142821.1379B-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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Hi Robert, On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Robert Watson wrote: > As you may have noticed in trying the vn-backed mechanism, there are some > inefficiencies that turn up in FreeBSD when have large numbers of > pseudo-devices, etc. The resizing problem is real, also, since we don't > have online file system resizing. FWIW, a file system like HFS+ (which > has a much more strict directory hierarchy) would lend itself to directory > quotas much more. A port of HFS+ to FreeBSD was recently posted to > freebsd-fs. Thank you for your very informative response. I am curious, what sort of inefficiencies do turn up when you have large numebers of pseudo devices ? Do you have any comments on a system running, say, 100 vn-backed mounted filesystems ? 200 ? (presume moderate to heavy activity in each ...) thanks!
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