On 24 February, 2010 - Bob Friesenhahn sent me these 1,0K bytes: > On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Steve wrote: >> >> The overhead I was thinking of was more in the pointer structures... >> (bearing in mind this is a 128 bit file system), I would guess that >> memory requirements would be HUGE for all these files...otherwise arc >> is gonna struggle, and paging system is going mental....? > > It is not reasonable to assume that zfs has to retain everything in > memory. > > I have a directory here containing a million files and it has not caused > any strain for zfs at all although it can cause considerable stress on > applications. > > 400 million tiny files is quite a lot and I would hate to use anything > but mirrors with so many tiny files.
Another tought is "am I using the correct storage model for this data"? /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
