Hi Robert, On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Robert Watson wrote:
> As you may have noticed in trying the vn-backed mechanism, there are some > inefficiencies that turn up in FreeBSD when have large numbers of > pseudo-devices, etc. The resizing problem is real, also, since we don't > have online file system resizing. FWIW, a file system like HFS+ (which > has a much more strict directory hierarchy) would lend itself to directory > quotas much more. A port of HFS+ to FreeBSD was recently posted to > freebsd-fs. Thank you for your very informative response. I am curious, what sort of inefficiencies do turn up when you have large numebers of pseudo devices ? Do you have any comments on a system running, say, 100 vn-backed mounted filesystems ? 200 ? (presume moderate to heavy activity in each ...) thanks! _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
