UFS2 limits

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 11:09:17AM -0500, Dan wrote:
> Jeremy Chadwick(koitsu at FreeBSD.org)@2008.11.08 18:40:46 -0800:
> > I don't want to change the topic of discussion, but I *highly* recommend
> > you ***stop*** whatever it is you're doing that is creating such a
> > directory structure.  Software which has to iterate through that
> > directory using opendir() and readdir() will get slower and slower as
> > time goes on.
> 
> On a related note there are filesystems that handle many
> files/directories very quickly. They use alternate tree data structures
> that behave quicker. ReiserFS is one of them. I believe XFS does quite
> well too. FreeBSD should have adapted XFS in addition to ZFS. ZFS is a
> resource monster. Shame, really. XFS is freely available in Linux for a
> number of years. Hammer, the new FS for FreeBSDs is available for
> DragonflyBSD.

If you really think HAMMER accomplishes the same goals as ZFS, you are
sadly mistaken.

I have no idea about XFS.

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