Re: TAKE - shrink xfs inode

[Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com>]

On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 14:10, Austin Gonyou wrote:
> Is there data around this about any possible changes in performance of
> either file writes/reads/deletes, or general memory utilization during
> writes/reads/deletes?
> 
> Specifically, it takes n long to delete x number of files, or takes n
> long to create x number of directories, or takes n long to read x number
> of files or x number of megs into memory, etc?
> 
> The reason I ask is that news and mail servers seem to be the most
> common file-corruption witnesses, could this help them?
> 
> 

The only thing this really does is fit more inodes in a page, and hence
make xfs use less memory to operate. Using less memory will help some
loads.

Steve

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