On Mar 24, 2010, at 4:38 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Steve Simmons <[email protected]> writes: > >> Our estimate too. But before drilling down, it seemed worth checking if >> anyone else has a similar server - ext3 with 14,000 or more volumes in a >> single vice partition - and has seen a difference. Note, tho, that it's >> not #inodes or total disk usage in the partition. The servers that >> exhibited the problem had a large number of mostly empty volumes. > > That's a *lot* of volumes from our perspective. The biggest partition > we've got has about 7000 volumes on it. It must be really fun when you > have to restart that file server and reattach volumes.
Nightmare is a better word. Fortunately very recent 1.4 releases have gotten a lot faster on that front. It's also another reason why we're desperately trying to carve out time so we can test dynamic attach, but that's grist for another thread. Steve_______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
