To follow up on an email i sent not to long ago I have been digging through ext2 documentation to try to find what is the best setup for storing tons of small files(tens/hundreds of thousands).
The filesystem is composed of 2 9.1GB Ultra160 drives in raid1. I have 2 identical systems setup with different parameters: mail-wa:~# more /root/dumpe2fs-md0 Filesystem volume name: <none> Last mounted on: <not available> Filesystem UUID: 236531e2-03b8-4aac-ad6a-5ac880857bae Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53 Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic) Filesystem features: filetype sparse_super Filesystem state: not clean Errors behavior: Continue Filesystem OS type: Linux Inode count: 560128 Block count: 8956096 Reserved block count: 89560 Free blocks: 8883337 Free inodes: 560116 First block: 1 Block size: 1024 Fragment size: 1024 Blocks per group: 8192 Fragments per group: 8192 Inodes per group: 512 Inode blocks per group: 64 and mail-ca:~# more /root/dumpe2fs Filesystem volume name: <none> Last mounted on: <not available> Filesystem UUID: f79dcbca-4c5d-4b13-9a11-a46ee1bca1df Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53 Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic) Filesystem features: filetype sparse_super Filesystem state: not clean Errors behavior: Continue Filesystem OS type: Linux Inode count: 1121664 Block count: 2239024 Reserved block count: 111951 Free blocks: 2203810 Free inodes: 1121652 First block: 0 Block size: 4096 Fragment size: 4096 Blocks per group: 32768 Fragments per group: 32768 Inodes per group: 16256 Inode blocks per group: 508 Last mount time: Mon Dec 11 21:55:32 2000 I tried running bonnie++ and told it to create 8GB of data in 4 million files but it didn't work, all i got was "aborted" after some time. any opinions as to which is more effective at storing small files?(or maybe another option ...) thanks! nate ::: http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4:15pm up 88 days, 1:33, 3 users, load average: 0.05, 0.03, 0.00
