[OpenAFS-devel] Large-Cache Initialization (Proposal)

[Derek Atkins]

chas williams <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> writes:

> >So I tried (and failed) to initialize a 3GB AFS Cache last night.
> >I set my Linux (RH 6.2/Linux 2.2/ext2-fs) box to the task around
> >8pm or so last night, and at 9am this morning it was still chugging
> 
> choose a bigger chunksize to cut down on the number of files.

I don't want a bigger chunksize.  I deal with lots of small files.
Besides, that's not the problem.  The problem is that many FSs don't
deal with extremely large directories.

-derek
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