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Re: interface for tar



WOW!

Very nice ideas.

I like the dd idea. What command would I use for that? Also, the files
are coming from NFS; how can I help this?  Any ideas for this?



On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:24 PM, David Fox <dfox94085@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Mag Gam <magawake@gmail.com> wrote:
>> At my university we run fluid dynamic simulations. These simulations
>> create many small files (30,000) per hour. Their size is very small
>> (20k to 200k). Instead of having this on the filesystem since it take
>
> My approach:
>
> make a sufficiently-sized file using dd if=/dev/zero of=/bigfile bs=1m
> count=1000
>
> size so that you have enough room, and room for growth, of course
>
> Make a filesystem inside of that file (reiserfs might be a good choice
> since it is well-designed to handle lots of smallish files, although
> "small" by that definition may be much smaller than 200k)
>
> Mount that file in loopback mode prior to running your simulations,
> and (after moving the files over to the new filesystem) direct all
> filesystem traffic to use that 'filesystem' which may entail only
> something simple as cd'ing into the 'filesystem' and starting work.
>
>
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