ZFS directory with a large number of files

Christian Weisgerber naddy at mips.inka.de
Fri Aug 5 15:46:01 UTC 2011


Daniel Kalchev <daniel at digsys.bg> wrote:

> On 02.08.11 12:46, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > I am pretty sure UFS does not have this problem. i.e. once you 
> > delete/move the files out of the directory its performance would be 
> > good again. 
> 
> UFS would be the classic example of poor performance if you do this.

"Classic" indeed.  UFS dirhash has pretty much taken care of this
a decade ago.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy at mips.inka.de



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