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Subject: Re: high capacity configuration nightmares
From: Ralf Hildebrandt (Ralf.Hildebrandtberliner-volksbank.de)
Date: Mon Oct 30 2000 - 07:14:51 CST

Daniel Phillips wrote:
>
> On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> > Wietse Venema wrote:
> >
> > > > Sorry for offtopic -- this seemed to be not an offtopic really,
> > > > as long as so many people interested in this (filesystem) question...
> > >
> > > I think it's on topic.
> > >
> > > I suspect that Postfix presents a very pathological load for any
> > > file system, namely, lots of lots of little file create/delete
> > > operations and relatively little data I/O.
> >
> > Hi Daniel, any comments on how TUX2 handles this "pathological cases"?
>
> It sounds like most of the create/deletes will be occur entirely inside a
> phase and never make it to disk. You'll see CPU activity, but not much disk
> activity. Even if the create/deletes do make it to disk, it's an nice case
> for Tux2 because it leaves lots of little holes lying around to use in future
> rewrites.
>
> --
> Daniel 

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