Which app are you running that is generating millions of tiny files in a single directory? Regardless, in this case OpenBSD is not the right tool for the job. You need either FreeBSD or a Solaris variant to handle this problem because you need ZFS.
What limits does ZFS have? --------------------------------------- The limitations of ZFS are designed to be so large that they will never be encountered in any practical operation. ZFS can store 16 Exabytes in each storage pool, file system, file, or file attribute. ZFS can store billions of names: files or directories in a directory, file systems in a file system, or snapshots of a file system. ZFS can store trillions of items: files in a file system, file systems, volumes, or snapshots in a pool. I'm not sure why ZFS hasn't yet been ported to OpenBSD, but if it were then that would pretty much eliminate the need for my one and only FreeBSD box ;-) On Feb 19, 2013, at 2:35 AM, Keith <ke...@scott-land.net> wrote: > Q. How do I make the default web folder /var/www/ capable of holding millions > of files (say 50GB worth of small 2kb-12kb files) so that I won't get inode > issues ? > > The problem is that my server has the default disk layout as I didn't expect > to have millions of files (I though they would be stored in the DB). When I > started the app it generated all the files and I got out of space warnings. I > tried moving the folder containing the files and making a symlink back but > that didn't work because nginx is in a chroot. > > The two option I think I have are. > > 1. Reinstall the OS and make a dedicated /var/www partition but how I > increase the inode limit I have no idea. > 2. Make a new partition, format it, copy the files from the original > partition and swap them around and restart nginx. ( Do i run newfs with some > option to make more inodes ?) > > Thanks > Keith.
