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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

  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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