[Zope] DirectoryStorage and UFS2

[Matt Hamilton]

Ken Gunderson wrote:

> I am unsure whether UFS2 would best utilize the "chunky" or "busy" 
> options.  The 64 bit pointers allow for up to 65K subdirs w/in a dir, 
> correct?  So the large number of subdirs under chunky format could be 
> handled.  Dirhash and dirpref can deal can cope with large numbers of 
> files per directory, correct.  But then doesn't UFS2 still use more 
> linear model?  
> 
> Any insights from the FBSD/filesystem gurus would be appreciated.

We use DirectoryStorage on UFS+softupdates on FreeBSD 4.x and use bushy. 
    I did a few simple tests of bushy vs. chunky and didn't get any 
significant difference.  Whether this holds true for UFS2 or not I don't 
know.

-Matt



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