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?
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
