(... to Nabble Ext3:Users - reposted by me after I joined the ext3-users mailing list - sorry for the dup...) A bit of a rambling subject there but I am trying to figure out if it is more efficient at runtime to have few very large file systems (8 TB) vs a larger number of smaller file systems. The file systems will hold many small files. My preference is to have a larger number of smaller file systems for faster recovery and less impact if a problem does occur, but I was wondering if anybody had information from a runtime performance perspective - is there a difference between few large and many small file systems ? Is memory consumption higher for the inode tables if there are more small ones vs one really large one ? Also, does anybody have a reasonable formula for calculating memory requirements of a given file system ? Thanks. Joe _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
