On 03/07 04:43 , Guus Houtzager wrote: > I think you're right. I have 2 suggestions for additional testing. It's my > experience that backuppc became really really slow after a few weeks when > more data began to accumulate. Could you test ext3 again, but with a few > million more files? I'm also rather interested to know if the dir_index > option of ext3 makes any difference. Could you try that too (mke2fs -j -O > dir_index /dev/whatever) please?
I created that filesystem with the dir_index option already. :) > You can let bonnie use softlinks or hardlinks instead of real files in the > test, so maybe that would be a nice additional test to run. yeah, thanks for the reminder. > > Of course, one of the nice things about Reiserfs is that you don't have to > > worry about running out of inodes. For that alone, it is likely worthwhile > > on backuppc storage filesystems. > > mke2fs -j -T news should take care of that. I've had problems with that in the past; can't remember exactly what they were. I tend to just leave that option alone these days. > What kernel did you use? 2.6.14. Debian 2.6.14-2-686, specifically. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
