On 22/04/07, Gil Freund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 4/21/07, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Our servers have to deal with huge amounts of small files (tens, sometimes > hundreds of thousands of files IN ONE DIRECTORY). Do you access them locally or remotely, if so, how?
They are writen locally, then transferred over FTP to Windows machines.
I used to be fond of ReiserFS v3 until I got beaten by it not recovering > from a partition resizing excercise. Resizing a partition is not a good indicator. There are too many other factors involved.
I just became worry of the admin tools available for ReiserFS. It's wonderfull when everything is dandy (and survived many power failures at my previous home) but then when I needed to do something else, which I hear is trivial with ext3 for instance, it failed measerebly. Benchmark your own environment. Hardware specs (RAID, RAM, CPU, etc)
can tilt the results. Repeat the benchmarks for about 3-5 time. I like Bonnie++. Look for the results that best match your environment (Read, Write, Create, etc).
It looks like Bonnie++ is what everyone and his dog are doing. I'll try to see how can I do that (hardly any headroom in terms of spare hardware to shift things around). Cheers, --Amos
