Timothy Shimmin wrote:
BTW, Sam Vaughan wrote some tutorial notes on the allocator and in particular
filestreams which I've pasted below:
(I thought it might be here:
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/training/ but I can't see it
in the allocator lab and slides).
I did actually find an entry for filestreams in slide 6.
While there I also found the information on 64bit inodes.
My filesystem is 9.6TB and could well end up with a large quantity of
1-15MB files stored and the statement:
"Operating system interfaces and legacy software products often
mandate the use of 32 bit inode numbers even on systems that support 64
bit inode numbers."
makes me wonder how common this still is in practice - the slide was
written in 2006)?
My initial preference would be to go with 64 bit inodes for performance
reasons, but as one cannot revert the fs back to 32 bit inodes once
committed, I am somewhat hesitant.
Or am I worrying unecessarily about the negative impact of 32 bit
inodes, given 9.6TB full of 1 to 15MB files?
Regards,
Richard
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