ext4 – Tarik Billa

Storing & accessing up to 10 million files in Linux

January 8, 2024 by Tarik

You should definitely store the files in subdirectories. EXT4 and XFS both use efficient lookup methods for file names, but if you ever need to run tools over the directories such as ls or find you will be very glad to have the files in manageable chunks of 1,000 – 10,000 files. The inode number … Read more

Is rename() without fsync() safe?

September 13, 2023 by Tarik

No. Look at libeatmydata, and this presentation: Eat My Data: How Everybody Gets File IO Wrong http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3172 by Stewart Smith from MySql. In case it is offline/no longer available, I keep a copy of it: The video here The presentation slides (online version of slides)

Hata!: SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user 'divattrend_liink'@'localhost' (using password: YES)