you are in an fs with millions of small files

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 8:36 AM -0700 6/5/05, Randy Bush wrote:
>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?

Do individual directories have jillions of files, or is a a large
tree of files?  Could you break it up into multiple partitions for
your mirror of it, and 'newfs' each of those to hold plenty of extra
inodes?

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