Hi, Or you could fix your application, to not do stupid things (like generating millions of files in a single directory) in the first place... ;-)
On 2013-02-19 at 12:10 CET Paolo Aglialoro <paol...@gmail.com> wrote: >Or you could just use ZFS, XFS, whateverFS in a separate unix/linux box and >go NFS on it, simulating a true external storage appliance :) > > >On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:47 AM, MJ <m...@sci.fi> wrote: > >> 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. > -- Greetings Rafal Bisingier
