Re: [CentOS] inquiry about limitation of file system

2018-11-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/3/18 12:44 AM, yf chu wrote: I wonder whether the performance will be affected if there are too many files and directories on the server. With XFS on modern CentOS systems, you probably don't need to worry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FegjLbCnoBw For older systems, as best I

Re: [CentOS] inquiry about limitation of file system

2018-11-03 Thread Keith Keller
On 2018-11-03, Jonathan Billings wrote: > > Now, filesystem limits aside, software that try to read those directories > with huge numbers of files are going to have performance issues. I/O > operations, memory limitations and time are going to be bottlenecks to web > operations. Just to be

Re: [CentOS] inquiry about limitation of file system

2018-11-03 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 4 Nov 2018 06:37:53 +0800 (CST) yf chu wrote: > Thank you for your advice. I know the issue depends on a lot of factors. > Would you please give me some detail information about how to tune these > parameters such as the size of cache,the type of cpu? I am not quite familiar > with these

Re: [CentOS] inquiry about limitation of file system

2018-11-03 Thread yf chu
Thank you for your advice. I know the issue depends on a lot of factors. Would you please give me some detail information about how to tune these parameters such as the size of cache,the type of cpu? I am not quite familiar with these detail. At 2018-11-03 22:39:55, "Stephen John

Re: [CentOS] inquiry about limitation of file system

2018-11-03 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Nov 3, 2018, at 04:16, yf chu wrote: > > Thank you for your hint. > I really mean I am planning to store millions of files on the file system. > Then may I ask that what is the maximum number of files which could be stored > in one directory without affecting the performance of web server?

Re: [CentOS] inquiry about limitation of file system

2018-11-03 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, 3 Nov 2018 at 04:17, yf chu wrote: > > Thank you for your hint. > I really mean I am planning to store millions of files on the file system. > Then may I ask that what is the maximum number of files which could be stored > in one directory without affecting the performance of web

Re: [CentOS] inquiry about limitation of file system

2018-11-03 Thread yf chu
Thank you for your hint. I really mean I am planning to store millions of files on the file system. Then may I ask that what is the maximum number of files which could be stored in one directory without affecting the performance of web server? At 2018-11-03 16:03:56, "Walter H." wrote:

Re: [CentOS] inquiry about limitation of file system

2018-11-03 Thread Walter H.
On 03.11.2018 08:44, yf chu wrote: I have a website with millions of pages. does 'millions of pages' also mean 'millions of files on the file system'? just a hint - has nothing to do with any file system as its universal: e.g. when you have 1 files don't store them in one folder, create