Re: interface for tar
David:
Do you have some sort of script to manage this? I am a little hesitate
to give professors mkfs and mount sudo access. Is there a way around
this?
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Mag Gam <magawake@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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