[gpfsug-discuss] FIle system vs Database
Skylar Thompson
skylar2 at u.washington.edu
Thu Nov 30 18:41:52 GMT 2017
On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 01:34:05PM -0500, Marc A Kaplan wrote:
> It would be interesting to know how well Spectrum Scale large directory
> and small file features work in these sort of DB-ish applications.
>
> You might want to optimize by creating a file system provisioned and tuned
> for such application...
>
> Regardless of file system, `ls -1 | grep ...` in a huge directory is not
> going to be a good idea. But stats and/or opens on a huge directory to
> look for a particular file should work pretty well...
I've wondered if it would be worthwhile having POSIX look-alike commands
like ls and find that plug into the GPFS API rather than making VFS calls.
That's of course a project for my Copious Free Time...
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