Hi Henry,
Glad to hear that, thanks for reporting back!
Best
-Nikolaus
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On Sun, 24 Apr 2022, at 06:33, Henry Wertz wrote:
> Just wanted to report on mine, so far so good! I have (using local backend
> on ext4 filesystem) a 4TB drive, 8TB drive, and a 1TB drive (in a portable
> system), all running s3ql with a variety of workloads (some movie storage --
> I know s3ql won't do anything to shrink or dedup that but OK... rsync
> backups, VirtualBox activities, both .ova files and running VMs out of there,
> some source code, some games as well.) Nothing to report! Unmounted
> filesystem(s), updated s3ql. The s3qladm upgrade process was quick and
> painless, on the 2GB database it took a minute or two, on the others it was
> nearly instantaneous. It shrunk the databases about 10-15%. I decided to
> fsck.s3ql --force the filesystems too, no problems. The 8TB has a lot of
> duplication due to rsync backups on it, about 8.8TB data on the 8TB drive
> using 5.23TB disk space. This one the DB is now 1.9GB and shrunk about by
> 200MB. 4TB, it's like 90MB now, it shrunk about 9MB. It definitely mounts,
> unmounts, and fscks faster (since there's 1 fewer tables for it to read in,
> write back, or check.) I didn't think of doing any benchmarks but "seat of
> the pants" it does seem a bit faster in use too; not a surprise, when you're
> pushing the IOPS on there one potential "choke point" are s3qlite synchronous
> writes, and removing one table means that much less stuff for s3qlite to have
> to write out.
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