Re: File system for large directories?

2007-04-21 Thread Amos Shapira
On 22/04/07, Gil Freund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/21/07, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Our servers have to deal with huge amounts of small files (tens, sometimes > hundreds of thousands of files IN ONE DIRECTORY). Do you access them locally or remotely, if so, how?

Re: File system for large directories?

2007-04-21 Thread Amos Shapira
On 22/04/07, Marc A. Volovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Quoth Amos Shapira: > Hi, > > Our servers have to deal with huge amounts of small files (tens, > sometimes hundreds of thousands of files IN ONE DIRECTORY). > > Currently they use ext3 but I wonder wether this is the prefered FS. Ext3 is

Re: File system for large directories?

2007-04-21 Thread Gil Freund
On 4/21/07, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Our servers have to deal with huge amounts of small files (tens, sometimes hundreds of thousands of files IN ONE DIRECTORY). Do you access them locally or remotely, if so, how? Currently they use ext3 but I wonder wether this is the pr

Re: File system for large directories?

2007-04-21 Thread Marc A. Volovic
Quoth Amos Shapira: > Hi, > > Our servers have to deal with huge amounts of small files (tens, > sometimes hundreds of thousands of files IN ONE DIRECTORY). > > Currently they use ext3 but I wonder wether this is the prefered FS. Ext3 is - last I chaecked (about two years ago) possibly the wors

File system for large directories?

2007-04-21 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi, Our servers have to deal with huge amounts of small files (tens, sometimes hundreds of thousands of files IN ONE DIRECTORY). Currently they use ext3 but I wonder wether this is the prefered FS. I used to be fond of ReiserFS v3 until I got beaten by it not recovering from a partition resizin