On Thu 26 Apr 2007, Richard Geoffrion wrote: > > I have begun dismounting my banks after the backups.. This way if there > *IS* a crash/powerfailure/reset-button-push I don't even have to worry > one iota! (at least not about the vaults)
That is indeed the best, and what I do on a couple of systems (actually, remount them readonly so that the data is readily accessible if needed). > >What is also helpful is that > >xfs is *very* fast in deleting files. On a 8TB backup system, expiring > >the images for one day used to take around 24 hours (with reiserfs, > >although in my experience ext3 is not that much faster in deleting). > > > My experiences would have to disagree with you. Expiring EXT3 images > was faster on an order of MAGNATUDE over (badevil)REISERFS Imagine if you used xfs :-) Paul Slootman _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
