[wellylug] XFS and JFS

Cliff Pratt enkidu at cliffp.com
Tue Feb 5 20:15:17 NZDT 2008


E Chalaron wrote:
 >
> Hi there I am thinking of moving a Raid 0 (2 x 500GB) from ext3 to
> XFS or JFS filesystem. Reason is that I usually need to work with
> 40000 files per directory, which I understand to be a bit pushing it
> for ext3 and after 30 to 35000 files it certainly starts to loose the
> plot. Reliability is not an issue, since files are data which are
> processed then removed and can be recreated if anything goes wrong. 
> OS is on another ext3 disk, I am not mixing data and OS.
> 
> Any advice ?
> 
40000 files per directory? I assume that there is no other way of doing 
it? My gut feel is that the filesystem might have an effect, but it will 
be small.

Cheers,

Cliff




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