Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use?

2013-12-18 Thread Mark Campbell
, 2013 1:34 PM To: Mark Campbell; backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use? Thanks Mark. From the zfs man page for zol it looks like the default compression is lzjb, same as other zfs implementations. I generally use lz4 which is basically lzjb

Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use?

2013-12-17 Thread Sorin Srbu
From: Timothy J Massey [mailto:tmas...@obscorp.com] Sent: den 16 december 2013 18:23 To: General list for user discussion, questions and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use? Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se wrote on 12/16/2013 09:40:56 AM: Anyway

Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use?

2013-12-17 Thread Mark Campbell
, questions and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use? On Mon, 16 Dec 2013, Timothy J Massey wrote: One last thing: everyone who uses ZFS raves about it. But seeing as (on Linux) you're limited to either FUSE or out-of-tree kernel modules (of questionable legality

Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use?

2013-12-17 Thread Russell R Poyner
...@rather.puzzling.org] Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 10:00 PM To: General list for user discussion, questions and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use? On Mon, 16 Dec 2013, Timothy J Massey wrote: One last thing: everyone who uses ZFS raves about it. But seeing

Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use?

2013-12-17 Thread Timothy J Massey
Russell R Poyner rpoy...@engr.wisc.edu wrote on 12/17/2013 11:12:07 AM: This is a poor comparison since we have different data sets, but it would appear that BackupPC's internal dedupe and compression is comparable to, or only slightly worse than what zfs achieves. This in spite of the

Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use?

2013-12-17 Thread Mark Campbell
even higher. Thanks, --Mark -Original Message- From: Russell R Poyner [mailto:rpoy...@engr.wisc.edu] Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 11:12 AM To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Mark Campbell Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use? Mark, Questions, and some

Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use?

2013-12-17 Thread Russell R Poyner
To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Mark Campbell Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use? Mark, Questions, and some comments. Questions: What have you done to tune your zfs? Do you use a ZIL? and or an L2ARC? How much ram do you have? What compression level are you

Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use?

2013-12-17 Thread Adam Goryachev
On 18/12/13 03:35, Timothy J Massey wrote: Russell R Poyner rpoy...@engr.wisc.edu wrote on 12/17/2013 11:12:07 AM: This is a poor comparison since we have different data sets, but it would appear that BackupPC's internal dedupe and compression is comparable to, or only slightly worse than

[BackupPC-users] What file system do you use?

2013-12-16 Thread Mark Rosedale
I'm working on bringing back a backuppc instance. It is very large 3+TB. The issue I'm having is e2fsck is taking an extremely long time to finish. It is stuck on the checking directory structure. We are going on 48 hours. So I'm wondering what other file systems do you guys use? Any

Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use?

2013-12-16 Thread Mike
On 13-12-16 10:06 AM, Mark Rosedale wrote: I'm working on bringing back a backuppc instance. It is very large 3+TB. The issue I'm having is e2fsck is taking an extremely long time to finish. It is stuck on the checking directory structure. We are going on 48 hours. So I'm wondering what

Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use?

2013-12-16 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: Mark Rosedale [mailto:mrosed...@vivox.com] Sent: den 16 december 2013 15:06 To: General list for user discussion, questions and support Subject: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use? I'm working on bringing back a backuppc instance. It is very large

Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use?

2013-12-16 Thread Michael Stowe
I'm working on bringing back a backuppc instance. It is very large 3+TB. The issue I'm having is e2fsck is taking an extremely long time to finish. It is stuck on the checking directory structure. We are going on 48 hours. So I'm wondering what other file systems do you guys use? Any

Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use?

2013-12-16 Thread Timothy J Massey
Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se wrote on 12/16/2013 09:40:56 AM: Anyway, Anaconda objected at my choosing ext4 for the 40 TB raid-array when I recently set up a new system, and defaulted to xfs instead. EXT4 won't support file systems 16TB at all with 4k blocks, and depending on OS and

Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use?

2013-12-16 Thread Kris Lou
FWIW, it looks like RHEL 7 (plus clones) will now default to XFS. Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Michael Stowe mst...@chicago.us.mensa.orgwrote: I'm working on bringing back a backuppc instance. It is very large 3+TB. The issue I'm having is e2fsck is

Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use?

2013-12-16 Thread Timothy J Massey
Mark Rosedale mrosed...@vivox.com wrote on 12/16/2013 09:06:07 AM: I'm working on bringing back a backuppc instance. It is very large 3 +TB. The issue I'm having is e2fsck is taking an extremely long time to finish. It is stuck on the checking directory structure. We are going on 48 hours.

Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use?

2013-12-16 Thread Timothy J Massey
Timothy J Massey tmas...@obscorp.com wrote on 12/16/2013 02:35:44 PM: Mark Rosedale mrosed...@vivox.com wrote on 12/16/2013 09:06:07 AM: I'm working on bringing back a backuppc instance. It is very large 3 +TB. The issue I'm having is e2fsck is taking an extremely long time to finish. It

Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use?

2013-12-16 Thread Tim Connors
On Mon, 16 Dec 2013, Timothy J Massey wrote: One last thing: everyone who uses ZFS raves about it. But seeing as (on Linux) you're limited to either FUSE or out-of-tree kernel modules (of questionable legality: ZFS' CDDL license is *not* GPL compatible), it's not my first choice for a