On Aug 21, 2008, at 9:51 AM, Brent Jones wrote: > Hello, > I have been experimenting with ZFS on a test box, preparing to > present it to management. > One thing I cannot test right now is our real-world application > load. We write to CIFS shares currently in small files. > We write about 250,000 files a day, in various sizes (1KB to 500MB). > Some directories get a lot of individual files (sometimes 50,000 or > more) in a single directory. > We spoke to a Sun storage person, and he said our scenario is unique > in our file count, and we could run into severe performance problems. > Has anyone seen how ZFS behaves under such file counts? Currently > NTFS handles it reasonably well (Explorer doesn't like large > directories, but our applications bypass that). > > Any feedback would be appreciated!
Curious, why can't you test this right now? You could generate a similar workload using FileBench: http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/FileBench eric _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
