> Hello, I'm running a Centos 5.4 x64 Server with Raid0 HDDs and > XFS. > Extracting a tar archive with 6.1 million files (avg. Size > just below 2KiB) Ah, one of the "the file system is an optimal small record DBMS" sort of delusions. > is blazingly fast after the fs has been generated. But after > some time while doing deletes/moves (need to sort those files > by their contents) the fs performance degenerates quite badly Very funny. "the file system is an optimal small record DBMS" sort of delusion, only squared/cubed. It may be amusing to hear some explanation of what "sort those files by their contents" actually is thought to mean here, as I have the peculiar feeling that "sort" here actually means "sort the directory entries" (as in "deletes/moves") instead of the inodes or the file data, as if they were the same thing. > 8k file writes/sec to about 200). Why is this surprising? > Is there any way I can find out what the issue is and how I > can help it? Some entry level tutorial on storage systems? Some introductory book on DBMSes? What most amuses or depresses me is that this question or a very similar variants gets asked quite regularly in this (and other filesystems oriented) mailing list. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
