[Gluster-users] How to partition directory structur for 300K files?

Mathieu Chateau mathieu.chateau at lotp.fr
Mon Aug 24 14:01:45 UTC 2015


Hello,

did you do some basic tuning to help anyway ?
using latest version ?
in replication or only distributed ?
Why using NFS and not native fuse client to mount volume?
did you install VM tools (if using VMware fusion) ?

Cordialement,
Mathieu CHATEAU
http://www.lotp.fr

2015-08-24 15:20 GMT+02:00 Merlin Morgenstern <merlin.morgenstern at gmail.com>
:

> I am running into trouble while syncing (rsync, cp ... ) my files to
> glusterfs. After about 50K files, one machine dies and has to be rebooted.
>
> As there are about 300K files in one directory, I am thinking about to
> cluster that in a directory structure in order to overcome that problem.
>
> e.g. /0001/filename /0002/filename
>
> That would cut down the amount of files in one directory. However this is
> something I would like to avoid if possible due to SEO - changing the url
> of the file brings a lot of trouble.
>
> The system underneith are 2 seperate VM instances, each running ubuntu
> 14.04. Cluster NFS client on same machine as Gluster server. Macbook Pro 13
> retina with capable SSD and 1G internal network between the VMs.
>
> Thank you for any help on this.
>
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