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From: Bruce Guenter <lists-linux-ext4@bruce-guenter.dyndns.org>
To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext4 unlink performance
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:48:48 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081114154848.GA21361@untroubled.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081114145914.GE25117@mit.edu>

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On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 09:59:14AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
> This is beginning to perhaps sound like a layout problem of some kind.
> How big is the filesystem that you are testing against?

The partition is almost 30GB.

> I'm guessing
> that if you have 725,000 small files, that it can't be much more than
> a gig or two, right?

The compressed stream itself expands to 4.4GB, and more on disk due to
block sizes.

> Can you send me the output of 
> 
>     e2image -r /dev/XXX - | bzip2 ext4.e2i.bz2
> 
> for both the ext4 and ext3 filesystems, after you have loaded them
> with your small files, and before you delete them?

Will do.  Can you accept LZMA so I can save a bit of bandwidth?

-- 
Bruce Guenter <bruce@untroubled.org>                http://untroubled.org/

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-14 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-13 18:57 ext4 unlink performance Bruce Guenter
2008-11-13 19:10 ` Bruce Guenter
2008-11-13 20:42   ` Theodore Tso
2008-11-14  4:11     ` Bruce Guenter
2008-11-14 14:59       ` Theodore Tso
2008-11-14 15:48         ` Bruce Guenter [this message]
2008-11-14 15:54           ` Theodore Tso
2008-11-15 20:44         ` Bruce Guenter
2008-11-15 23:08           ` Eric Sandeen
2008-11-16  0:56           ` Theodore Tso
2008-11-16  3:38             ` Bruce Guenter
2008-11-17  0:43             ` Andreas Dilger
     [not found]               ` <20081119024021.GA10185@mit.edu>
2008-11-19 18:10                 ` Andreas Dilger
2008-11-19 21:18                   ` Theodore Tso
2008-11-20 22:49                     ` Bruce Guenter
2008-11-13 19:46 ` Theodore Tso
2008-11-13 20:27   ` Bruce Guenter

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