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From: Daniel Troeder <daniel@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fast file system for cache directory with lot's of files
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:40:29
Message-Id: 5029114E.8070402@admin-box.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Fast file system for cache directory with lot's of files by Michael Hampicke
1 On 13.08.2012 15:16, Michael Hampicke wrote:
2 > - about 20GB
3 > - 100.000 directories
4 > - about 2 million files
5 >
6 > The system has 2x Intel Xon Quad-cores (Nehalem), 16GB of RAM and two
7 > 10.000rpm hard drives running a RAID1.
8 1st thought: switch to SSDs
9 2nd thought: maybe lots of writes? -> get a SSD for the fs metadata
10 3rd thought: purging old files with "find"? your cache system should
11 have some kind of DB that holds that information.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Fast file system for cache directory with lot's of files Michael Hampicke <mgehampicke@×××××.com>