On Thursday 17 September 2009, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote: > Hello, > > is it possible to optimize Lustre so that is supports really large > directories (with 30k small files in it)? We have 8 physical clients which > process jpeg files stored on Lustre volume and I get sooner or later client > freezes - ls in Lustre directory waits forever.
Just to be clear, is that a color ls or an "ls -l" (anthing that stats all files) or just a regular ls? The former should be a lot slower since a stat requires the file size and the file size requires lustre to get information from all involved OSTs... /Peter > I there something I could > do to improve performance? ...
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