Hacks when working with a large number of small files
The idea for the article was born spontaneously from a discussion in the comments to the article “Something about inode”. The fact is that the internal specificity of our services is the storage of a huge number of small files. At the moment we have about hundreds of terabytes of such data. And we came across some obvious and not so obvious rakes and successfully navigated them. That's why I'm sharing [...]