Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-05-31 Thread Anatoly Pugachev
Here's a quick patch to src/console/console.c with implementation to -e command line switch to bconsole. http://snap.co.ru/~mator/one-command-console.c.patch On 25.05.2010 / 10:33:27 -0400, Morty Abzug wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 05:13:36PM +0400, Anatoly Pugachev wrote: On 04.05.2010 /

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-05-16 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 04 May 2010 10:45:16 Craig Ringer wrote: On 4/05/2010 11:45 AM, Morty Abzug wrote: file dedup (rather than block dedup) could mostly be handled at the catalog level with another level of indirection. I.e. instead of a catalog entry containing file metadata and where the file

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-05-04 Thread Craig Ringer
On 4/05/2010 11:45 AM, Morty Abzug wrote: file dedup (rather than block dedup) could mostly be handled at the catalog level with another level of indirection. I.e. instead of a catalog entry containing file metadata and where the file lives on media, it would contain file metadata and a

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-05-04 Thread Morty Abzug
On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 04:45:16PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote: On 4/05/2010 11:45 AM, Morty Abzug wrote: file dedup (rather than block dedup) could mostly be handled at the catalog level with another level of indirection. I.e. instead of a catalog entry containing file metadata and where the

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-05-03 Thread Morty Abzug
On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 08:39:04AM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: However, from what I see, this is basically similar to what BackuPC does. The big problem I have with it is that it does not scale well to thousands of machines. file dedup (rather than block dedup) could mostly be handled at the

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-08 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, I haven't seen the original messages, so I am not sure if I understand the full concept here so my remarks may not be pertinent. However, from what I see, this is basically similar to what BackuPC does. The big problem I have with it is that it does not scale well to thousands of

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-08 Thread Craig Ringer
Kern Sibbald wrote: Hello, I haven't seen the original messages, so I am not sure if I understand the full concept here so my remarks may not be pertinent. Personally I wasn't suggesting a format change - I'm pretty happy with the fake-tape volumes for on-disk storage (though I wish

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 04/08/10 03:53, Craig Ringer wrote: BTW, When I suggested that greater write concurrency would be desirable and should be easier, Phil Stracchino raised some concerns about concurrent writes to a file system increasing fragmentation and hurting overall performance. Rather than just wave my

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-08 Thread Craig Ringer
Phil Stracchino wrote: On 04/08/10 03:53, Craig Ringer wrote: BTW, When I suggested that greater write concurrency would be desirable and should be easier, Phil Stracchino raised some concerns about concurrent writes to a file system increasing fragmentation and hurting overall performance.

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-08 Thread Robert LeBlanc
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:39 AM, Kern Sibbald k...@sibbald.com wrote: Hello, I haven't seen the original messages, so I am not sure if I understand the full concept here so my remarks may not be pertinent. However, from what I see, this is basically similar to what BackuPC does.  The big

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 04/08/10 09:13, Craig Ringer wrote: Phil Stracchino wrote: I'll be interested to see those results. Which filesystems are you testing? I'm interested in ext3, ext4 and xfs. I should probably look at zfs too, but don't have any hosts that it runs on usefully and don't really have any

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-08 Thread Richard Scobie
Craig Ringer wrote: I'm interested in ext3, ext4 and xfs. I should probably look at zfs too, but don't have any hosts that it runs on usefully and don't really have any personal interest in it. You may find the XFS mount directive, filestreams of benefit here. There is not much documentation

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-08 Thread Gary R. Schmidt
On Fri, April 9, 2010 05:09, Richard Scobie wrote: [snip] You may find the XFS mount directive, filestreams of benefit here. And using the 64-bit XFS will also better[1] than the standard 32-bit XFS. Or the hybrid 32-bit XFS using 64-bit layout rules. (Damn, I only left SGI at the end of 2008

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-08 Thread Richard Scobie
Gary R. Schmidt wrote: And using the 64-bit XFS will also better[1] than the standard 32-bit XFS. That would be using the inode64 mount option. Regards, Richard -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new