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I would love for directories of small files to be stored this way under ZFS; like infrequently updated tar or zip (no compression) files. (Though the filesyste
by mjevans 5y ago
I would love for directories of small files to be stored this way under ZFS; like infrequently updated tar or zip (no compression) files. (Though the filesystem layer of compression might operate on the whole file, or maybe as two streams, one for the file and one for the index.)
- sixothree 5y agoI was under the impression that in NTFS files under 4k are stored in the MFT. I feel like they might have chosen 10k to break this barrier and end up in filespace land. edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS#Resident_vs._non-resident_attributes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS#Resident_vs._non-resident...
- simcop2387 5y agoI think this is kind of what reiserfs did back in the day for small files. Keep them in the tree and share pages with lots of small files. It worked rather well, it's just that the file system had plenty of other issues with reliability and recovery at the time. It was vitally impotant that you didn't store any plain text disk images that contained a reiserfs partition on a reiserfs mount, fsck could decide to merge thentwo together causing unknown amounts of corruption.