• mitch.fh (1/2/2013)


    More smaller files or fewer bigger files.

    Unless all those files are on different physical drives, fewer bigger files is better. There's no gain from having lots of little files on the same RAID array, and there is a downside when you have *lots* of files in terms of time to open them, the overhead of calculating proportional fill and such.

    If you have 24 LUNs, then there's no gain from more than 24 files and possibly a loss.

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