you are in an fs with millions of small files

[Matt Emmerton]

> >> to mirror someone's stuff, i need an fs which is happy with
> >> a jillion small files.  they're linux geeks, so suggested
> >> reiserfs.  but that appears (from -current's
> >> /sys/i386/conf/NOTES) to only have read-only support on
> >> freebsd.  is there another path?
> > I say, do you think a database might be a solution (e. g. mysql)?
>
> no.  i am trying to do a site mirror, not tell the site how to
> organize their data.

UFS[2] will be just fine -- but you will need to ensure that you have more
inodes than the default and increase dirhash to keep performance at a
reasonable level.

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Matt Emmerton