File System Choice

[Fajar A. Nugraha]

2009/11/26 万善义 <wsy at 114.com.cn>:
> 500,000 domains, with the Ext3 file system, DNS service starts very slow and therefore require several hours before they can work properly. For the bind file system choices, there are any suggestions advice?

Are you sure it's filesystem issue? ext3 has a feature, dir_index,
which uses hashed b-trees to speed up lookups in large directories.
It's activated by default (at least on RHEL & Ubuntu, should be the
same on other modern distros). Try checking with "dumpe2fs -h" to make
sure you have it.

Also, you could organize the zone files (manually) so that they spread
over many directories instead of one.

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Fajar