On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 13:30 -0800, beonice wrote: > --- Colin Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > The problem I suspect will arise is the number of > inodes allowed by the file system. I don't know the > exact size of the typical inode-max, but this will > also presumably become an issue when the user tries to > scale to really large amounts of faxes or voicemail! > Would it help to split the db off to a separate server > (that should reduce the CPU load on the asterisk > server)? > > Any other alternatives? Anyone verified whether the > BLOB storage solution breaks down first or the number > of inodes runs out first? :)
reiserfs doesn't have inodes, it also uses 'compression' for files smaller than the 'block' size. ie, say you use 4k blocks, and you need to store 4 x 1k files, then it will store all 4 files into a single block, and record that the one block includes 4 files etc.... so it is space efficient for lots of small files. It is also very efficient in the case where you have a lot of files in a single directory, hence you don't need to worry about that (as much) either. Though if you are expecting 10's of thousands of files, I'd still do some sort of directory hashing.... (actually, I'd probably test it and see)... Regards, Adam -- Adam Goryachev Website Managers Ph: +61 2 9345 4395 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +61 2 9345 4396 www.websitemanagers.com.au _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
