[nzlug] 'Chunked' file systems?

[Robin Sheat]

On Friday 01 September 2006 09:07, Cliff Pratt wrote:
> Rather than have a directory with a bunch of tiny files in, which causes
> havoc with backups and copies and such, is there any way that I can have
> a 'directory' with a bunch of 'files' that can be copied and or backed
> up as a unit.
You mean like a tar.gz or .zip file? Or do you want to be able to access it as 
both a lot of small files, and as one big lump? In that case, do something 
like use dd to create a file as large as you'll need, mkfs to format it to 
ext2[0] or something, and then mount it. But it seems like a strange system 
that would have issues with many small files. Typically Linux (and UNIX) 
filesystems have handled this kind of thing well, I thought.

[0] ext2 is probably good due to being low overhead, and the consistency 
hopefully being provided by the journalling FS below it

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