> On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 03:05:45PM -0400, Richard Sims wrote:
> > >Is there an issue with tons of itty-bitty files?
> >
> > Yes: ADSMv3 Small File Aggregation is supposed to help, but can be undone
> > by TXNBytelimit/TXNGroupmax settings.
>
>
> Hmm, I've observed the effect under Sun Solaris aswell, the problem IMHO is
> not an ADSM transfer/buffer settings problem as much as (in the case of
> Sun Solaris, and probably NT aswell)  synchronous meta-data updates
> in the file-system.

For Solaris at least, you can make these updates asynchronous.

There is a program floating around called "fastfs" that will change a
file system from "slow" to "fast" and back again.

Making a file system "fast" makes a HUGE difference to restores or
mass deletes.

There is a risk associated with it: systems or power failure when the
file system is "fast" recent changes will be lost.


Russell