Re: you are in an fs with millions of small files

From: Randy Bush <randy_at_psg.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 08:47:05 -0700
>> to mirror someone's stuff, i need an fs which is happy with
>> a jillion small files.  they're linux geeks, so suggested
>> reiserfs.  but that appears (from -current's
>> /sys/i386/conf/NOTES) to only have read-only support on
>> freebsd.  is there another path?
> I say, do you think a database might be a solution (e. g. mysql)?

no.  i am trying to do a site mirror, not tell the site how to
organize their data.

randy
Received on Sun Jun 05 2005 - 13:47:14 UTC

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