SmartOS manyfiles.sh is a bash script to create N files of size M. It uses the solaris mkfie(1M) command to create 0 padded files that can be small (1024) or rather large (100g for 100Gb file). Files are named TEMP_ZEROS_0000001 to N. Afterward, pbzip2 can be used to load up the system cpu and compress these in paralell to equal sized files (in …

manyfiles

Applies to SmartOS/illumOS/Solaris machines with the mkfile command.

For testing too many file effects, create 500,000 numbered 2k zero padded files:
#./manyfiles.sh 500000 2k


For maxing out file storage, then releasing, this makes 20 100Gb zero padded files, bzips them. 
# ./manyfiles.sh 20 100g
# pbzip2 TEMP_* &
The 20 resulting files should be all exactly the same size in bytes.


You can get this script directly on the server console from the raw:
# wget --no-check-certificate http://tinyurl.com/aws966c



     

manyfiles.sh

#!/bin/bash

if [ $# != 2 ]
then
        echo "Uses Solaris mkfile to create some number of 0 filled files"
        echo "usage `basename $0` [number of files] [size of files e.g. 100g]"
        echo "   "
        exit 1
fi

NUMCYC=0

echo Number of Files: $1
echo Size of Files: $2

while [ $NUMCYC != $1 ]
do
        let NUMCYC=$NUMCYC+1
        let LASTCYC=$NUMCYC-1

        echo mkfile instance: $NUMCYC

        FILENUM=$NUMCYC
        if [ $NUMCYC -lt 1000000 ]
        then
                FILENUM=0${FILENUM}
        fi
        if [ $NUMCYC -lt 100000 ]
        then
                FILENUM=0${FILENUM}
        fi
        if [ $NUMCYC -lt 10000 ]
        then
                FILENUM=0${FILENUM}
        fi
        if [ $NUMCYC -lt 1000 ]
        then
                FILENUM=0${FILENUM}
        fi
        if [ $NUMCYC -lt 100 ]
        then
                FILENUM=0${FILENUM}
        fi
        if [ $NUMCYC -lt 10 ]
        then
                FILENUM=0${FILENUM}
        fi

        echo mkfile -v ${2} TEMP_ZEROS_${FILENUM}
        mkfile -v ${2} TEMP_ZEROS_${FILENUM} &
done