Re: interface for tar

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 08/20/08 05:50, Mag Gam wrote:
> 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?

In that case, go back to Owen Townend's suggestion.

> 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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