We looked into this awhile back. Apparently the ZFS (Silicon Graphics originally) is great for really huge files. The Reiser file systems are tuned for many many very small files. (Unfortunately Mr. Hans Reiser is in jail for 15 yrs, but the file systems live on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser.)
-----Original Message----- From: Alexander Ramos Jardim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 6:19 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: "Multicore" and snapshooter / snappuller ZFS is good if have REALLY big files. Not so often, my segment files get that big size to benefit from ZFS. 2008/8/21 Jon Baer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Thanks ... on a somewhat related note, does having the index on ZFS > buy me anything, has anyone toyed w/ ZFS snapshots / send / recv to > automount? Does it work? > > - Jon > > > On Aug 21, 2008, at 6:43 PM, Alexander Ramos Jardim wrote: > > You need to setup one snapshooter for each index >> >> 2008/8/21 Jon Baer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> Hi, >>> >>> Ive started putting together a small cluster and going through the >>> setup on some of the scripts, do they have any awareness of a >>> multicore setup? It seems like I can only snapshot a single master >>> directory, Im assuming these tools are compatible with that type of >>> setup but just want to check ... >>> >>> Also is there a more step by step doc outlining the tool usage. Id >>> like to send a copy to our sysadmins but they seem to be more >>> indepth w/ each tool verses a workflow on using them. >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> - Jon >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Alexander Ramos Jardim >> > > -- Alexander Ramos Jardim
