Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental directory structure

2008-07-08 Thread Craig Barratt
Christoph writes: > Well, as nobody could help me so far (even the xfs mailing list is very > slient ...), let's get a step further: > > My filesystem for backuppc data now contains about 160 million inodes. > bonnie++ tells me that this filesystem is able to create 1000-4000 > inodes per second.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental directory structure

2008-07-03 Thread Christoph Litauer
dan schrieb: > just for reference: > > time for i in `seq 1 1`; do mkdir $i; done > > ext3 > real0m15.536s > user0m7.764s > sys0m6.108s > bonnie++ > xfs > real0m14.365s > user0m7.856s > sys0m6.148s > > reiserfs > real0m13.679s > user0m8.053s > sys0m6.024s

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental directory structure

2008-07-02 Thread dan
just for reference: time for i in `seq 1 1`; do mkdir $i; done ext3 real0m15.536s user0m7.764s sys0m6.108s bonnie++ xfs real0m14.365s user0m7.856s sys0m6.148s reiserfs real0m13.679s user0m8.053s sys0m6.024s On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Christoph Litau

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental directory structure

2008-07-02 Thread Christoph Litauer
Christoph Litauer schrieb: > Christoph Litauer schrieb: >> Thanks a lot Adam! >> In the meantime I discussed my problem on the xfs mailing list. We are >> not finished yet, but adding mount option "nobarrier" reduced my >> performance problems significantly. I am still in contact to clarify if >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental directory structure

2008-06-27 Thread Christoph Litauer
Christoph Litauer schrieb: > Thanks a lot Adam! > In the meantime I discussed my problem on the xfs mailing list. We are > not finished yet, but adding mount option "nobarrier" reduced my > performance problems significantly. I am still in contact to clarify if > it's possible to optimize the us

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental directory structure

2008-06-26 Thread Tino Schwarze
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 02:59:20PM +0200, Christoph Litauer wrote: > > If I take a look on the structure of incrementals, I can see lots of > > empty directories. It seems as if the whole directory structure of the > > backup-source is kind of "duplicated" to the backup disk - although

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental directory structure

2008-06-26 Thread Christoph Litauer
Les Mikesell schrieb: > Christoph Litauer wrote: >>> >> Thanks a lot Adam! >> In the meantime I discussed my problem on the xfs mailing list. We are >> not finished yet, but adding mount option "nobarrier" reduced my >> performance problems significantly. I am still in contact to clarify >> if i

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental directory structure

2008-06-26 Thread Les Mikesell
Christoph Litauer wrote: >> > Thanks a lot Adam! > In the meantime I discussed my problem on the xfs mailing list. We are > not finished yet, but adding mount option "nobarrier" reduced my > performance problems significantly. I am still in contact to clarify if > it's possible to optimize the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental directory structure

2008-06-26 Thread Christoph Litauer
Adam Goryachev schrieb: > Adam Goryachev wrote: >> Christoph Litauer wrote: >>> Craig Barratt schrieb: Christoph writes: > If I take a look on the structure of incrementals, I can see lots of > empty directories. It seems as if the whole directory structure of the > backup-sou

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental directory structure

2008-06-25 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Goryachev wrote: > Christoph Litauer wrote: >> Craig Barratt schrieb: >>> Christoph writes: >>> If I take a look on the structure of incrementals, I can see lots of empty directories. It seems as if the whole directory structure of the >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental directory structure

2008-06-24 Thread Rich Rauenzahn
> I don't want to get into a war about filesystem formats, but perhaps > this is a valid data point for XFS. I don't know about other filesystem > types either... > > You might like to check out/talk to some XFS experts, and see what they > say about your very slow performance There may be som

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental directory structure

2008-06-24 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christoph Litauer wrote: > Craig Barratt schrieb: >> Christoph writes: >> >>> If I take a look on the structure of incrementals, I can see lots of >>> empty directories. It seems as if the whole directory structure of the >>> backup-source is kind of "

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental directory structure

2008-06-24 Thread Christoph Litauer
Craig Barratt schrieb: > Christoph writes: > >> If I take a look on the structure of incrementals, I can see lots of >> empty directories. It seems as if the whole directory structure of the >> backup-source is kind of "duplicated" to the backup disk - although most >> of the directories (and the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental directory structure

2008-06-23 Thread Craig Barratt
Christoph writes: > If I take a look on the structure of incrementals, I can see lots of > empty directories. It seems as if the whole directory structure of the > backup-source is kind of "duplicated" to the backup disk - although most > of the directories (and the files in them) are unchanged. >

[BackupPC-users] Incremental directory structure

2008-06-23 Thread Christoph Litauer
Hi, some time ago I asked the same question but didn't get an answer. As deletion of incremental dumps is _really_ slow on my server, I try again: If I take a look on the structure of incrementals, I can see lots of empty directories. It seems as if the whole directory structure of the backup-