On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 04:39:08PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: > > >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 :-)
We are using XFS here on an 8.5TB volume for backups about 30% used so far with 150-ish vaults all storing 30 days. It's working perfectly. We went with XFS primarily because it link creation speed was so good in our benchmarks. -- Kelsey Cummings - [EMAIL PROTECTED] sonic.net, inc. System Architect 2260 Apollo Way 707.522.1000 Santa Rosa, CA 95407 _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
