WOW! Very nice ideas.
I like the dd idea. What command would I use for that? Also, the files are coming from NFS; how can I help this? Any ideas for this? On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:24 PM, David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> At my university we run fluid dynamic simulations. These simulations >> create many small files (30,000) per hour. Their size is very small >> (20k to 200k). Instead of having this on the filesystem since it take > > My approach: > > make a sufficiently-sized file using dd if=/dev/zero of=/bigfile bs=1m > count=1000 > > size so that you have enough room, and room for growth, of course > > Make a filesystem inside of that file (reiserfs might be a good choice > since it is well-designed to handle lots of smallish files, although > "small" by that definition may be much smaller than 200k) > > Mount that file in loopback mode prior to running your simulations, > and (after moving the files over to the new filesystem) direct all > filesystem traffic to use that 'filesystem' which may entail only > something simple as cd'ing into the 'filesystem' and starting work. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
