Re: [Moosefs-users] Chunking in MooseFS

[Laurent W. <lw...@hy...>]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:43:36 +0100
Ioannis Aslanidis <ias...@fl...> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> From what you say, by default we have blocks of 64KB and chunks of
> 64MB. Correct?
right.
> 
> This means that small files use 64KB blocks while big files use 64MB
> chunks. Is this the case?
I guess so.
> 
> So in the end, the difference is that many small files can fill in a
> chunk, while big files take in the whole chunk.
agreed.
> 
> Are there any performance indicators that show how much space gets lost?
Not that I know of.
See http://www.moosefs.org/moosefs-faq.html#source_code for details.
HTH,
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