Re: Allocation strategy - dynamic zone for small files

[phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk]

adilger@clusterfs.com wrote:

> At the filesystem summit we DID find a surprising number of small files
> even when the whole system was examined.  We discussed storing small
> files directly in the inode along with other EAs (this would require
> larger inodes).  This improves data locality and performance (i.e. stat
> of the file loads the small file data into cache), though the assumption
> is that there will be an increasing number of EAs on files in the future.

So it won't be feasible to store EAs + small file in the inode, or in the
future it won't be feasible to store just EAs in the inode for most files?

Are there any stats showing the current amount/size of EAs per file, and
what it is expected to be in the future?

Phillip