LWN.net article: creating 1 billion files -> XFS looses

[Emmanuel Florac]

Le Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:12:45 +0200
Michael Monnerie <michael.monnerie at is.it-management.at> écrivait:

> The subject is a bit harsh, but overall the article says:
> XFS is slowest on creating and deleting a billion files
> XFS fsck needs 30GB RAM to fsck that 100TB filesystem.

Too bad I haven't got a 100 TB machine at hand. However I have a 24TB
system dedicated to tests. I'm pretty sure we can do much better with
XFS and the proper mount options :)

In fact, I have an unused 40 TB array too. See this one later...

Stay tuned :)

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