btrfs and 1 billion small files

2012-05-07 Thread Alessio Focardi
can fit my situation, would you recommend it over XFS? XFS has a minimum block size of 512, but BTRFS is more modern and, given the fact that is able to handle indexes on his own, it could help us speed up file operations (could it?) Thank you for any advice! Alessio Focardi

Re: btrfs and 1 billion small files

2012-05-07 Thread Alessio Focardi
This is a lot more compact (as you can have several files' data in a single block), but by default will write two copies of each file, even on a single disk. Great, no (or less) space wasted, then! I will have a filesystem that's composed mostly of metadata blocks, if I understand correctly.