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From: ching <lsching17@gmail.com>
To: Hugo Mills <hugo@carfax.org.uk>,
	"linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: cwillu <cwillu@cwillu.com>, Felix Pepinghege <postfach@pepinghege.net>
Subject: Re: Why btrfs inline small file by default?
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 05:07:03 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <509192F7.5040807@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121031001203.GD3102@twin.jikos.cz>

On 10/31/2012 08:12 AM, David Sterba wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 07:47:14AM +0800, ching wrote:
>> On 10/31/2012 06:19 AM, Hugo Mills wrote:
>>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:14:12PM +0000, Hugo Mills wrote:
>>>>> if i have 10G small files in total, then it will consume 20G by default.
>>>>    If those small files are each 128 bytes in size, then you have
>>>> approximately 80 million of them, and they'd take up 80 million pages,
>>>> or 320 GiB of total disk space.
>>>    Sorry, to make that clear -- I meant if they were stored in Data.
>>> If they're inlined in metadata, then they'll take approximately 20 GiB
>>> as you claim, which is a lot less than the 320 GiB they'd be if
>>> they're not.
>>>
>> is it the same for:
>> 1. 3k per file with leaf size=4K
>> 2. 60k per file with leaf size=64k
> The inline limit is minimum of
> * 'max_inline' (8k by default)
> * PAGE_SIZE
> * leafsize - header
>
> so 60k files for 64k leaves will not get inlined, unless you have a
> system with 64k pages.
>

thank you very much for your clear explanation :)

this is the first time i heard about this.

ching

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-31 21:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-30 11:04 Why btrfs inline small file by default? ching
2012-10-30 12:04 ` Felix Pepinghege
2012-10-30 12:17   ` cwillu
2012-10-30 21:40     ` ching
2012-10-30 22:14       ` Hugo Mills
2012-10-30 22:19         ` Hugo Mills
2012-10-30 23:47           ` ching
2012-10-31  0:12             ` David Sterba
2012-10-31 21:07               ` ching [this message]
2012-10-31  0:18             ` cwillu
2012-10-31  8:48               ` Ahmet Inan
2012-10-31  9:39                 ` cwillu
2012-10-31 10:48                   ` Ahmet Inan
2012-10-31 10:55                     ` Michael Kjörling
2012-10-31 11:10                       ` Ahmet Inan
2012-10-31 10:57                     ` cwillu
2012-10-31 11:56                       ` Michael Kjörling
2012-10-31 13:27                         ` Ahmet Inan
2012-10-31 13:44                         ` Roman Mamedov
2012-10-31 21:05               ` ching
2012-10-30 22:16       ` cwillu
2012-10-30 23:41         ` ching
2012-10-30 21:39   ` ching
2012-10-30 12:11 ` Felix Pepinghege
2012-10-30 12:13 ` Mitch Harder
2012-10-30 16:38 ` David Sterba

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