On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 18:58, Eric Schrock wrote: > > Yes, unfortunately this is the case. But it will only affect > filesystems with more than 3 billion files on them. There's not much > that can be done about this - if you want to have more than 2^32 files, > you need more than 32 bits to uniquely identify them. The lightweight > ZFS filesystem model will also reduce this effect, since administrators > will be encouraged to have many filesystems (i.e. one per user) instead > of a single mammoth filesystem (all of /export/home).
How far has this been tested? I know I tested it, just to see how well it worked, about 6 months ago. On a fairly small machine, 10,000 filesystems was starting to get "interesting". I just wonder, seeing as we would need about 40,000 filesystems under this model. -- -Peter Tribble L.I.S., University of Hertfordshire - http://www.herts.ac.uk/ http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
