hammer with millions of files

[Peter B. Pokryshev]

On Mon, 2 Jun 2014 22:27:04 -0400
Justin Sherrill <justin at shiningsilence.com> wrote:

> We've had some people using Hammer on pretty large volume, but I don't know
> how they compared to what you are doing.
> 
> The biggest collection I've directly used Hammer for is for building
> pkgsrc, which was some 10k packages, times at least 4-5 files for each
> package, plus the files from building and the output - Hammer worked fine.
>  The biggest danger was that the fine-grained file history tended to fill
> up the disk when I compiled all of the packages.  Since every file change
> was tracked, it ate disk quickly - which was fine after tuning the settings.
> 
> DragonFly install images are live, so in theory, you could test this out.
> 
> 

Thank you for answer.
I create more than one million files and *after* that
by the "systat -v" I've saw about 100% disk busy :)

If I'll mount hammer FS with "-o nohistory",
still I'll have opportunity to make snapshots and 
fast boot after non-graceful system shutdown?


> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Peter B. Pokryshev <ppb at valuehost.ru>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hello!
> >
> > I am really tired of FreeBSD "stable" and want to migrate to DragonflyBSD.
> > I work with high load hosting servers.
> > Is anyone tested hammer stability with millions of files?
> >
> > --
> > Peter B. Pokryshev <ppb at valuehost.ru>
> >


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