On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 at 4:46pm (-0700), Cabbar Duzayak wrote:
I am planning to undertake a project where I need to store around 10
million images on (a) dedicated server(s)... At this point, I am
trying to decide whether I should store them on the database or on the
filesystem.
And, my question is do you think Redhat can handle this many files? I
will probably store them on a RAID 5 system, and of course I will
partition them over 4 level of directories and one directory will
contain at most (100 files) or (100 directories), but still, I am
curios to know if Redhat can handle this?
Does anyone have experience with this many files on linux filesystems?
Also, can you recommend which FS would be the best (in terms of
reliability and/or speed) Any suggestions/feedback?
I have two mailstores of 19.3 and 18.4 million files each on (mostly*)
vanilla rh7.3 ext3 partitions without drama. The number of files per dir is
a much bigger issue but your 100 files per dir isn't going to have any
problems there. Naturally fsck'ing a file system with that many files on it
takes a looooong time but since ext3 I havn't had to do that.
I can't answer if this better or worse than a database for you but it does
work. :)
M.
* bytes per inode was tuned so that inodes and blocks ran out at roughly the
same rate but this isn't relevent to your question - it acutally results in
less indoes than would be available normally.
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