On 1/3/03 at 6:45 AM Giorgos Keramidas wrote: |On 2003-01-02 09:01, MikeM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> I'm considering setting up my server as a mirror site for the freedb.org |> lookup database. Unfortunately, I've seem to have run into a stumbling |> block. The server app requires over 250,000 files in a single directory. |> Each file is about 2k in size. | |On 2003-01-02 12:13, MikeM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> On 1/2/03 at 8:58 AM Mikko Ty?l?j?rvi wrote: |> > It can be argued that the application is poorly designed... |> |> There's no arguing. It *is* poorly designed. I would have used a |> hash to spread the files across multiple directories. |> Unfortunately, I didn't design it. | |You are probably hitting the limit of fragments that are allowed on a |filesystem and "time optimization" becomes "space optimization". Are |you getting entries in your system logs like the following? | | optimization changed from TIME to SPACE =============
I just grep'd /var/log/* and the word "optimization" did not appear. To you and others who have helped me, here's what I'm doing. - tomorrow I am upgrading from 4.5 to 4.7 - once that proves stable, I'll increase the DIRHASH value appropriately. - once that proves stable, I'll "tunefs -n enable /usr" to turn on soft dependencies I'll report back with my experiences with the new configuration so that the archive remains complete. Thanks to everyone who helped. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
