Re: [BackupPC-users] considerations on i-nodes

2018-04-20 Thread G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users
Hello again, On Fri, 20 Apr 2018, Michael Stowe wrote: ... I don't think we're disagreeing ... Agreed. :) "I want to futz around with inode allocations" is rarely at the top of people's to do lists. Perhaps not, but "What do I need to ask of a filesystem for it to be able to support my p

Re: [BackupPC-users] considerations on i-nodes

2018-04-19 Thread Bzzzz
On Thu, 19 Apr 2018 16:55:59 + (UTC) Michael Stowe wrote: > While there's nothing inherently wrong with selecting an older > filesystem, ext4's design decision of backward compatibility has > essentially set some of its limitations in stone. (Your article below > elaborates on this point;

Re: [BackupPC-users] considerations on i-nodes

2018-04-19 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2018-04-19 06:31, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote: Hi there, On Thu, 19 Apr 2018, Michael Stowe wrote: ... Those who do reach back a decade or more to select a filesystem, That's like saying the Linux kernel is a hangover from the end of the 20th century. It's misleading, and more

Re: [BackupPC-users] considerations on i-nodes

2018-04-19 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2018-04-19 07:37, Gerald Brandt wrote: I've had data loss on XFS, so I'm very wary of it. It used to be my go to filesystem. Lately, I've been looking at bcachefs2. Anyone experience using it? Gerald I've also had data loss on XFS, for which I have no satisfactory explanation, but I'm equ

Re: [BackupPC-users] considerations on i-nodes

2018-04-19 Thread Gerald Brandt
I've had data loss on XFS, so I'm very wary of it. It used to be my go to filesystem. Lately, I've been looking at bcachefs2. Anyone experience using it? Gerald On 2018-04-18 05:21 PM, Michael Stowe wrote: On 2018-04-18 04:25, f...@igh.de wrote: Dear List, running BackupPC v4 I s

Re: [BackupPC-users] considerations on i-nodes

2018-04-19 Thread G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users
Hi there, On Thu, 19 Apr 2018, Michael Stowe wrote: ... Those who do reach back a decade or more to select a filesystem, That's like saying the Linux kernel is a hangover from the end of the 20th century. It's misleading, and more than a bit unfair especially considering the numbers of posts

Re: [BackupPC-users] considerations on i-nodes

2018-04-18 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2018-04-18 04:25, f...@igh.de wrote: Dear List, running BackupPC v4 I sometimes ran out of i-nodes. I have about twelve servers to backup with a total amount of about 2 TB and aboz 20 million files. I keep about 50 backups. On an ext4 file system it is likely to run out of i-nodes rather th

Re: [BackupPC-users] considerations on i-nodes

2018-04-18 Thread frush
Torsten- Nice writeup of a way to help manage the backupPC file system. On Wed, 2018-04-18 at 13:25 +0200, f...@igh.de wrote: > Dear List, > > running BackupPC v4 I sometimes ran out of i-nodes... > -- Ray Frush "Either you are part of the solution T:970.491.5527 or part of t

[BackupPC-users] considerations on i-nodes

2018-04-18 Thread fi
Dear List, running BackupPC v4 I sometimes ran out of i-nodes. I have about twelve servers to backup with a total amount of about 2 TB and aboz 20 million files. I keep about 50 backups. On an ext4 file system it is likely to run out of i-nodes rather than to run out of disk space (this hold