On Wednesday 25 Apr 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: > I'm moving my Dirvish backups from an old server (Debian Sarge, ext3) to > a new server (Debian Etch, xfs) and I have some interesting things > happening.
Block size used will have a significant influence especially if you are backing up mostly small files. Then there's the space taken up by filesystem structures (inodes etc) which can vary. Compare the characteristics of ext3 and xfs if you want to figure out what might cause this in your case (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems). Note you may wish to reconsider using xfs: it does not support block journalling, only metadata (see the above link, and also http://wiki.dirvish.org/?ReiserFSConsideredHarmeful - ReiserFS in Linux now supports block journalling according to the Wikipedia article, but the article's main point can probably be applied to XFS). Depends on how important the data is I suppose... ;-) Cheers, Eric -- Eric Mountain _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
