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On Fri, 2019-10-18 at 15:53 -0400, Richard Yao wrote: |
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> > On Oct 18, 2019, at 9:42 AM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> > Hi, everybody. |
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> > It is my pleasure to announce that yesterday (EU) evening we've switched |
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> > to a new distfile mirror layout. Users will be switching to the new |
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> > layout either as they upgrade Portage to 2.3.77 or -- if they upgraded |
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> > already -- as their caches expire (24hrs). |
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> > The new layout is mostly a bow towards mirror admins, for some of whom |
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> > having a 60000+ files in a single directory have been a problem. |
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> > However, I suppose some of you also found e.g. the directory index |
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> > hardly usable due to its size. |
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> This sounds like a filesystem issue. Do we know which filesystems are suffering? |
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> ZFS should be fine. I believe ext2/ext3 have problems with this many files. ext4 is probably okay, but don’t quote me on that. |
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Ext2, VFAT and NTFS were mentioned on the bug [1], though I suppose this |
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may apply only to older ntfs versions. NFS has been mentioned too. |
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However, just because modern filesystems can handle them efficiently, it |
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doesn't mean having directories that huge comes with zero cost. |
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[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/534528 |
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-- |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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