On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Richard Elling <richard.ell...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Jan 5, 2010, at 8:13 AM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > >> >> On Tue, January 5, 2010 10:01, Richard Elling wrote: >> >>> OTOH, if you can reboot you can also run the latest >>> b130 livecd which has faster stat(). >>> >> >> How much faster is it? He estimated 250 days to rm -rf them; so 10x >> faster would get that down to 25 days, 100x would get it down to 2.5 days >> (assuming the entire time is in the stat calls, which is probably not >> totally true).... >> > > dunno, nothing useful in the public bug report :-( > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6775100 > > > It's interesting how our ability to build larger disks, and our software's >> ability to do things like create really large numbers of files, comes back >> to bite us on the ass every now and then. >> > > Wait until you try it with dedup... not only will you need to update a lot > of metadata, but also a lot of DTT entries. > -- richard > > I recall pointing this out over a year ago when I said claiming unlimited snapshots and filesystems was disingenuous at best, and that likely we'd need to see artificial limitations to make many of these features usable. But I digress :) -- --Tim
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