On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 09:09:49AM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 08:42:01AM +0100, Janne Johansson wrote: > > > 2013/2/19 Keith <ke...@scott-land.net>: > > > Q. How do I make the default web folder /var/www/ capable of holding > > > millions of files (say 50GB worth of small 2kb-12kb files) so that I won't > > > get inode issues ? > > > > Since you probably aren't going to have 50G/2k number of files in a > > single dir, then you'd be wise to make several filesystems for the > > directories you have there, especially for the fsck reasons mentioned > > by others in this thread. > > Fsck'ing 10 5G fs:es with lots of inodes will be far more fun than one > > of 50G in size. And chances are quite big that not all of those 10 > > A 50G filesysten created with defaults has more than 6 million inodes > and on a system without a decent amount of memory checks pretty quick.
ehh, *with* > > If you run ffs2 with softdep, and optimization kicks in that will make > the number of *used* inodes the driving factor, instead of the total > number of inodes on a fs. > > > will have issues even on unclean shutdowns, so you would be able to > > skip over a few in such an event. > > Likely all will be unclean and need to be checked. > > Anyway make sure the max number of files per directory doe not grow > without bound. Use a max of a couple of 10000 files per directory as a > rule of thumb. > > -Otto
