Brandorr wrote: > Is ZFS efficient at handling huge populations of tiny-to-small files - > for example, 20 million TIFF images in a collection, each between 5 > and 500k in size?
Do you mean efficient in terms of space used? If so, then in general it is quite efficient. Eg, files < 128k space is rounded up to only a multiple of 512 bytes. Around 1k of metadata is consumed per file. There are however a few cases where it will not be optimal. Eg, 129k files will use up 256k of space. However, you can work around this problem by turning on compression. > I am asking because I could have sworn that I read somewhere that it > isn't, but I can't find the reference. If you find it, let us know. --matt _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
