Does "test-write" ever get expunged?

Brad Fitzpatrick brad at danga.com
Sun Apr 13 17:11:44 UTC 2008


Who cares?

10,000 files is noise on any reasonably-sized MogileFS installation.


On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 1:02 AM, mike <mike503 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Seems to me a somewhat trivial process.
>
> 1) issue a delete after a successful GET
> 2) have the server periodically do garbage collection (which might be
> the 10k files you're talking about, but why not set it to say, 50
> files or something much lower? Why grow a directory index so large
> with unneeded files?)
>
> On 4/13/08, dormando <dormando at rydia.net> wrote:
> > You can safely ignore them... They'll create about ten thousand :)
> >
> > They don't take any space, it's just an artifact of developing with it.
> >
> > There was a patch sent to the list (sorry, I never followed up) which
> issued
> > a delete, but it also removed the 10,000 limitation which I didn't like.
> You
> > could apply that, keep the 10,000 file max (in case deletes fail), and
> it
> > should just keep the dir clean.
>
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