Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Multi-tera, small-file filesystems

2007-04-19 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Aknin, Thursday, April 19, 2007, 7:20:26 AM, you wrote: > Hi Robert, thanks for the information. I understand from your words that you're more worried about overall filesystem size rather than the number of files, yes? Is the number of files  something I should or should not worry

Re[4]: [zfs-discuss] Multi-tera, small-file filesystems

2007-04-18 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Spencer, Thursday, April 19, 2007, 2:28:30 AM, you wrote: SS> On Apr 18, 2007, at 6:44 PM, Robert Milkowski wrote: >> Hello Carson, >> >> Thursday, April 19, 2007, 1:22:17 AM, you wrote: >> >> CG> Robert Milkowski wrote: >> We did some tests with Linux (2.4 and 2.6) and it seems there

Re: Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Multi-tera, small-file filesystems

2007-04-18 Thread Spencer Shepler
On Apr 18, 2007, at 6:44 PM, Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello Carson, Thursday, April 19, 2007, 1:22:17 AM, you wrote: CG> Robert Milkowski wrote: We did some tests with Linux (2.4 and 2.6) and it seems there's a problem if you have thousands of nfs file systems - they won't all be mounted a

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Multi-tera, small-file filesystems

2007-04-18 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Carson, Thursday, April 19, 2007, 1:22:17 AM, you wrote: CG> Robert Milkowski wrote: >> We did some tests with Linux (2.4 and 2.6) and it seems there's a >> problem if you have thousands of nfs file systems - they won't all be >> mounted automatically, and even doing it manually (or in a s

Re: [zfs-discuss] Multi-tera, small-file filesystems

2007-04-18 Thread Carson Gaspar
Robert Milkowski wrote: We did some tests with Linux (2.4 and 2.6) and it seems there's a problem if you have thousands of nfs file systems - they won't all be mounted automatically, and even doing it manually (or in a script with a sleep between each mount) there seems to be a limit below 1000.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Multi-tera, small-file filesystems

2007-04-18 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Yaniv, Wednesday, April 18, 2007, 3:44:57 PM, you wrote: YA> Hello, YA> I'd like to plan a storage solution for a system currently in production. YA> The system's storage is based on code which writes many files to YA> the file system, with overall storage needs currently around 40TB YA>

[zfs-discuss] Multi-tera, small-file filesystems

2007-04-18 Thread Yaniv Aknin
Hello, I'd like to plan a storage solution for a system currently in production. The system's storage is based on code which writes many files to the file system, with overall storage needs currently around 40TB and expected to reach hundreds of TBs. The average file size of the system is ~100K