Hi! Reading all the posts to your question I found it rather strange that no one seems to be interessted in some basic facts:
1. How will this kind of file server being used? What is its main purpose? 2. How many users are we talking here? 3. What are the most important operations you'll expect? Is it like moving lots of files around or copying entire directory structures? 4. Length of pathnames may be an issue here 5. and so forth ... Given your unique architecture plans IMHO _any_ recommendation for a specific FS is based on plain, gray theory. Regards spox Am Donnerstag, den 10.02.2005, 11:21 -0800 schrieb David Busby: > I don't want this to turn into one of those ext3 vs xfs conversations. > > 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 sub-dirs. > This will go on for 8 to 12 levels deep (I don't know yet) Then each > dir will have one small file in it (<32bytes). How would I tune ext3 > for this? What about XFS, I read that some of it's features might be > useful to me for this project. Any good links? I don't even know what > phrases to Google for this one, my results have been unhelpful. > > /djb > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- Mit freundlichen Gr��en Heinz Sporn SPORN it-freelancing Mobile: ++43 (0)699 / 127 827 07 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Snail: Steyrer Str. 20 A-4540 Bad Hall Austria / Europespox -- [email protected] mailing list
