On Jan 7 2007 10:03, Willy Tarreau wrote: >On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 12:58:38AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> >[..] >> >entries in directories with millions of files on disk. I'm not >> >certain it would be that easy to try other filesystems on >> >kernel.org though :-/ >> >> Changing filesystems would mean about a week of downtime for a server. >> It's painful, but it's doable; however, if we get a traffic spike during >> that time it'll hurt like hell. Then make sure noone releases a kernel ;-) >> However, if there is credible reasons to believe XFS will help, I'd be >> inclined to try it out. > >Hmmm I'm thinking about something very dirty : would it be possible >to reduce the current FS size to get more space to create another >FS ? Supposing you create a XX GB/TB XFS after the current ext3, >you would be able to mount it in some directories with --bind and >slowly switch some parts to it. The problem with this approach is >that it will never be 100% converted, but as an experiment it might >be worth it, no ? Much better: rsync from /oldfs to /newfs, stop all ftp uploads, rsync again to catch any new files that have been added until the ftp upload was closed, then do _one_ (technically two) mountpoint moves (as opposed to Willy's idea of "some directories") in a mere second along the lines of mount --move /oldfs /older; mount --move /newfs /oldfs. let old transfers that still use files in /older complete (lsof or fuser -m), then disconnect the old volume. In case /newfs (now /oldfs) is a volume you borrowed from someone and need to return it, well, I guess you need to rsync back somehow. -`J' -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html