Hi, We have an application where we need to store between 4 to 20 million small files on the on a large drive or a 3 drive raid system.

We are finding that file systems like UFS just don't cut it never mind Linux extFS... These file systems can handle what we are trying to do but they tend to slow down as they get full and in some cases we will have to be able to delete millions of files in one go.

In this type of configuration unfortunately we can't bundle at netapp as the technical overhead and cost would make the system unfeasable.

I have so far seen the ReiserFS can do what we are looking for but we need a fs that will work on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris etc... We must have a path to scale up or deploy a heavy load system and migrate to a big sun box if required.

Anyone knows how well Solaris 10's ZFS would work for this kind of application?

What do you guys suggest?

Maren.

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