Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 18:53:55 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why VMIO directory is a bad idea? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912111851210.500-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <19991210154459.A1034@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie>
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On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, David Malone wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 08:56:47AM -0500, Zhihui Zhang wrote:
>
> > Can anyone give me an idea on how big a directory could be in some
> > environment?
>
> Our inn's /news/spool/control/cancel directory is almost 300k. If
> we were a significantly larger news site we probably wouldn't be
> running inn though.
If you run newer INN's, you could use a CNFS buffer for control, which
would make your directory much smaller...
My directory's for ~52gig of news:
drwxr-xr-x 2 news news 512 Dec 10 12:50 buffer5
drwxr-xr-x 2 news news 512 Dec 10 10:50 buffer4
drwxr-xr-x 2 news news 512 Dec 10 10:25 buffer2
drwxr-xr-x 2 news news 512 Dec 8 07:13 buffer1
drwxr-xr-x 2 news news 512 Dec 8 07:13 buffer3
And they will never change from 512, as each directory contains but one
file...
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