No Space Left on Device

Re:No Space Left on Device by anilgulecha on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @02:38AM (#12433996)

A good filesystem to use as pseudo-db is ZFS. It's designed to have practically limitless number of files, and it's snapshotting/cloning come in really handy for things like backups etc. Also you get full checksumming.

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Re:No Space Left on Device by fnj on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @03:02AM (#12434100)

ZFS does have a hard limit of about 280 trillion files in a single directory. It's actually just about the most confining limit it does have.

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Re:No Space Left on Device by anilgulecha on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @03:12AM (#12434148)

Correct. Hence, practically limitless.

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Re:No Space Left on Device by bbcbasic on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @03:16AM (#12434164)

No one will ever need in 280 trillion files. Ever.

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Re:No Space Left on Device by liotier on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @04:56AM (#12434498)

    "No one will ever need in 280 trillion files. Ever." ~bbcbasic on Hacker News, September 2016

Found in someone's email .sig in the year 2046...

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Re:No Space Left on Device by bbcbasic on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @06:17PM (#12439677)

That typo is immortalised :-o

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Re:No Space Left on Device by skykooler on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @04:31AM (#12434414)

"So, we tried to use ZFS to back up the entire Internet, and we're running into a weird error..."

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Re:No Space Left on Device by majewsky on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @04:43AM (#12434454)

And 640k RAM ought to be enough for everyone. ;)

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