Re: [gentoo-user] Fast file system for cache directory with lot's of files

[Daniel Troeder]

On 13.08.2012 15:16, Michael Hampicke wrote:
> - about 20GB
> - 100.000 directories
> - about 2 million files
> 
> The system has 2x Intel Xon Quad-cores (Nehalem), 16GB of RAM and two
> 10.000rpm hard drives running a RAID1.
1st thought: switch to SSDs
2nd thought: maybe lots of writes? -> get a SSD for the fs metadata
3rd thought: purging old files with "find"? your cache system should
have some kind of DB that holds that information.