Millions of small files: best filesystem / best options

[Alessio Focardi]

> > I ran a Usenet server this way for quite a while with fairly good
> > results, though the average file size was a bit bigger, about 2K or
> > so.
> > I found that if I didn't use "-o space" that space optimization
> > wouldn't
> > kick in soon enough and I'd tend to run out of full blocks that
> > would be
> > needed for larger files.  

Fragmentation is not a problem for me, mostly I will have a write once-read many situation, still is not clear to me if "-o space" works in the constraints of the block/fragment ratio, that in my case it would still mean that I will have to use a 512 bytes subblock for every 200 byte files. 

ps

really thank you for all of your help!



Alessio Focardi
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