On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 05:44:46PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 9/11/2012 10:29 AM, Jon Dowland wrote: > > > Actually, lots and lots of small files is the worst use-case for rsnapshot, > > and > > the reason I believe it should be avoided. It creates large hard-link trees > > and > > with lots and lots of small files, the filesystem metadata for the trees can > > consume more space than the files themselves. Also performing operations > > that > > need to recurse over large link trees (such as simply removing an old > > increment) can be very slow in that case. > > Which is why I recommend XFS. It is exceptionally fast at traversing > large btrees. You'll need the 3.2 bpo kernel for Squeeze. The old as > dirt 2.6.32 kernel doesn't contain any of the recent (last 3 years) > metadata optimizations. > > -- > Stan
Unlike my boss, whom I faild to persuade to buy RAID card, you confince me to use XFS. I created 1TB LV for backup (and will resize it when necessary). Will default XFS be OK in my case? Regards, Veljko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120913102131.ge8...@angelina.example.org