From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: timotheus <timotheus@tstotts.net>
Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: tuning XFS for tiny files
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:52:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <469E7D70.9030606@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m23azlbpl1.fsf@tstotts.net>
timotheus wrote:
> Hi. Is there a way to tune XFS filesystem parameters to better address
> the usage pattern of 10000s of tiny files in directories such as:
> maildir directory
> mh mail directory
> ccache directory
>
> My understanding is that XFS will always be much slower than reiserfs
> with respect to deleting 10000s files; but that XFS might be possible to
> tune toward more rapid read access of 10000s of tiny files.
>
> Regards,
> -timotheus
Do you have a way to benchmark your load?
logv2 at mkfs time, and throwing in larger logbufs & logbsize as mount
options might help.
-Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-18 20:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-18 17:15 tuning XFS for tiny files timotheus
2007-07-18 20:52 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2007-07-19 23:05 ` Nathan Scott
2007-07-19 13:38 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-19 13:14 ` David Chinner
2007-07-19 13:54 ` Andi Kleen
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