On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 11:21:11AM -0800, David Busby wrote: > I don't want this to turn into one of those ext3 vs xfs > conversations.
<joking> It kind of turned into a "filesystem versus database" conversation! </joking> > I want to know which filesystem is a better choice for having lots > (>4billion) directories. The dirs will be in tree format, so at > the root will be 256 dirs, each with 256 sub-dirs, each with 256 > ... If you have the time, you could probably create some benchmarks/tests pretty easily. For filesystems, I think you could use the bonnie++ program and create a simple shell/perl/python script that reflects the behavior/requirements of the system you intend to implement. You could probably also do the same with some basic SQL scripting in a database. I once saw a nice webpage that compared benchmark results of the various filesystems available for Linux (but I don't remember the link). But I don't think the benchmarks took your specific (and heavy-duty) application into consideration. I'm sure a lot of folks ould enjoy seeing such benchmark results as well, especially if you did a similar comparison to a database. In short: benchmarking could be a really interesting study if you have the time! Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- [email protected] mailing list
