On 02/08/2011, at 18:38, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 08:39:03AM +0100, seanr...@gmail.com wrote: >> On my FreeBSD 8.2-S machine (built circa 12th June), I created a >> directory and populated it over the course of 3 weeks with about 2 >> million individual files. > > I'll keep this real simple: > > Why did you do this? > > I hope this was a stress test of some kind. If not: > > This is the 2nd or 3rd mail in recent months from people saying "I > decided to do something utterly stupid with my filesystem[1] and now I'm > asking why performance sucks". > > Why can people not create proper directory tree layouts to avoid this > problem regardless of what filesystem is used? I just don't get it. > > [1]: Applies to any filesystem, not just ZFS. There was a UFS one a > month or two ago too…
The problem is that he is being punished with shitty FS performance even though the directory structure is now non-silly. It sounds like the FS hasn't GC'd some (now unneeded) metadata.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
