From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D39EC138334 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2019 20:49:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9FEB4E0923; Fri, 18 Oct 2019 20:49:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (dev.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5C8DDE090F for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2019 20:49:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pomiot (c134-66.icpnet.pl [85.221.134.66]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mgorny) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 69A6734C01F; Fri, 18 Oct 2019 20:49:26 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <02507080f1e18d0382f551239819fb784cb0c05d.camel@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New distfile mirror layout From: =?UTF-8?Q?Micha=C5=82_G=C3=B3rny?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 22:49:21 +0200 In-Reply-To: References: <4c7465824f1fb69924c826f6bbe3ee73afa08ec8.camel@gentoo.org> Organization: Gentoo Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha512"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-bLVB4FjCkGLrGWT17x86" User-Agent: Evolution 3.32.4 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Archives-Salt: 59c06386-8fb3-4580-b3b7-c2731e276c2c X-Archives-Hash: aacfe48b73f74937865719b7d940e803 --=-bLVB4FjCkGLrGWT17x86 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2019-10-18 at 15:53 -0400, Richard Yao wrote: > > On Oct 18, 2019, at 9:42 AM, Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny = wrote: > >=20 > > =EF=BB=BFHi, everybody. > >=20 > > It is my pleasure to announce that yesterday (EU) evening we've switche= d > > to a new distfile mirror layout. Users will be switching to the new > > layout either as they upgrade Portage to 2.3.77 or -- if they upgraded > > already -- as their caches expire (24hrs). > >=20 > > The new layout is mostly a bow towards mirror admins, for some of whom > > having a 60000+ files in a single directory have been a problem.=20 > > However, I suppose some of you also found e.g. the directory index > > hardly usable due to its size. > This sounds like a filesystem issue. Do we know which filesystems are suf= fering? >=20 > ZFS should be fine. I believe ext2/ext3 have problems with this many file= s. ext4 is probably okay, but don=E2=80=99t quote me on that. Ext2, VFAT and NTFS were mentioned on the bug [1], though I suppose this may apply only to older ntfs versions. NFS has been mentioned too. However, just because modern filesystems can handle them efficiently, it doesn't mean having directories that huge comes with zero cost. [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/534528 --=20 Best regards, Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny --=-bLVB4FjCkGLrGWT17x86 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQGTBAABCgB9FiEEx2qEUJQJjSjMiybFY5ra4jKeJA4FAl2qJVJfFIAAAAAALgAo aXNzdWVyLWZwckBub3RhdGlvbnMub3BlbnBncC5maWZ0aGhvcnNlbWFuLm5ldEM3 NkE4NDUwOTQwOThEMjhDQzhCMjZDNTYzOUFEQUUyMzI5RTI0MEUACgkQY5ra4jKe JA6Jtgf/fVv2zmK3vFAGHt1yjcmTASUj6/behYuXw+qLS/CzFt5xT26HUppLdPQw 77+VHwWKN5AUtF9ZyxuSM0/JG8sOsFjyMzJOXYkvBkI79PZtu+lOAONXE3Hm5QLJ 7XGZKwVaCgMJsrI2ouvg34BR7LRcujH80T3M3HXHkn6HF0KgbptY8EuT5CugmP3y KQEntHCOSqRNcRU0gtBAKjG/oAuu2YkCwX8Su9BA/jU5ioAbqoc2bTlkois1QROb T6XzZNo/btLLh5ETdRTduPEKSojYyr8rg6l7IZFf0Di1Rpas3XzHROc/4edQr9PY DpB32F7/gbFOHdKhPGH1V1OpVVqxLQ== =wOIv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-bLVB4FjCkGLrGWT17x86--