Gayn Winters wrote: > What I get from reading this article is that if the use of the file > system is to store lots of small files, then use a small block size. Am > I missing something?
No and yes! There is a minimum block and fragment size. In this case there were not enough contiguous fragments to enable an 8K file to be created. Without checking I believe Solaris uses 8K blocks. > Also, in most situations, buying a big enough disk is far better than > worrying about what happens when a not-big-enough disk starts to get > full. Indeed. But... in the case I linked to there was apparently plenty of free space, just not enough free contiguous space. The author also implies that a bigger disk would not solve the problem: "it creates and deletes tons of small files and thus the fragmentation over a period of time." As mentioned though I have never seen this myself despite running very busy mail and web servers with what must be billions of files being created/deleted in that time. It certainly grabbed my attention so I thought it may be of interest to others. > -gayn Frem. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
