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Quotes of the weekQuotes of the weekPosted Jan 31, 2013 19:54 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)In reply to: Quotes of the week by epa Parent article: Quotes of the week
Actually, lots of files are not getting bigger, while some files are getting huge.
I am in the process of copying data from my home file server, the first ~550K files were about 33G, the next 80K files are the remaining 2.4TB (and it's probably <10K files that account for all of the space)
so if you get inefficient at storing small files, it can have a surprisingly large effect.
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Quotes of the week Posted Jan 31, 2013 21:58 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] so if you get inefficient at storing small files, it can have a surprisingly large effect. Why? Sure, efficiency for these files will go down, but efficiency for all files will still be pretty good.
Quotes of the week Posted Jan 31, 2013 22:21 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
it depends how you measure efficancy.
if you have 500K tiny files take an extra meg of disk space, but save a meg of disk space on 2K giant files, your overall efficiency is not improved
extents work pretty well at consolidating disk allocation units, so the win on modern filesystems would not be very large.
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