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[FEATURE] chunkserver to store small chunks in chunk-volumes #486

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onlyjob opened this issue Aug 20, 2022 · 0 comments
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[FEATURE] chunkserver to store small chunks in chunk-volumes #486

onlyjob opened this issue Aug 20, 2022 · 0 comments
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onlyjob commented Aug 20, 2022

Chunkservers can greatly optimise performance with many small files by aggregating small chunks into chunk-volumes. The idea is to implement a special storage backend in chunkserver code that stores small chunks in 64 MiB volume-files to reduce overall number of chunk-files. Implementation can leverage LevelDB, SQLite3 or a similar technology for a backend.

Chunkserver's performance suffer dramatically when chunkservers handle millions of files, which is a case when MooseFS is used to store Maildir structures, git repositories and CCTV data. SeaweedFS implementation stores all chunks in volume files (not a chunk-per-file like MooseFS) -- that achieves superior performance on great number of small files.

My original feature request #370 was moved to discussion for some reason so I'm filing feature request again, this time described more precisely. Thanks.

@chogata chogata added the feature Idea of a new feature to make MooseFS even better! :) label Aug 24, 2022
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