> How do you think? I am not qualified to comment on the technical design.
However, I suggest understanding the problem better before doing serious work. Let me know if I can be of help. Also, I don't know how important this use case is. I suspect that very few people work with this many files. Also, solid state drives are getting larger and larger. Eventually (maybe next year?) I will be able to get rid of rotating magnetic disks entirely. Once that happens, I will no longer need to merge filesystems. So my overall suggestion is please investigate if you think this is generally good for aufs and scalability. But it is probably not worth doing a lot of engineering work just for my specific case. Finally, thank you for all the support so far, it has been outstanding. Jeff PS. I was probably moving files from the upper to lower directory when the latest allocation failure occurred. (I have to do this, or the SSD will fill up). Maybe that is unsafe in aufs1 and triggered the problem. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july
