Samba Speed Question
David Collier-Brown
David.Collier-Brown at canada.sun.com
Fri Oct 6 16:06:44 GMT 2000
Dave Dezinski wrote:
| We've got a few NT40 servers that have more than 20000 files
| in a single directory, that don't perform this badly. We'd
| like to replace these servers with Linux boxes using Samba,
| but unless we re-organize these files into multiple directories
| (which means a bunch of custom software needs to be rewritten),
| this isn't possible.
|
| This definately is a problem that should be a looked into, this
| is not the first time I've seen someone complain about this.
Yes, it's an artifact of the Unix algorihms:
linear search and the reliable writes of the
directory metadata. The latter is adressed
in the SGI logging filesystem, the Solaris
logging option, ReiserFS and in ext2fs.
| Spliting the files up into multiple directories, is just a
| temporary workaround, not a solution.
Well, it's sort of a permanent workaround (;-))
It adresses the linear-search problem nicely,
which only a true logging fs (or caching) helps with.
NT will run out of speed on very deep b-tree
structures, which fortunately are rare, although
programs generating filenames sometimes stumble into
the "bad" part of the namespace. So would hashing
filesystems, if anyone built them.
--dave
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