[Lustre-discuss] mds backup question

2012-09-19 Thread Jason Brooks
Hello, I am running a file-level backup of an 1.8 mds system. At the moment, I am running the getfattr command as mentioned on page 15-3 in the lustre fs manual. The biggest thing i a noticing, is that the attributes are as large or larger than the actual filesystem. I expect that when conve

Re: [Lustre-discuss] mds backup question

2012-09-19 Thread Jason Brooks
Hello, Now that the getfattr operation is done, here are the specs: the mds filesystem (mounted as type ldiskfs) has 7.7 gigabytes in use. however, the getfattr operation produced an ascii file that is 20 gigabytes in size. is this reasonable? On Sep 19, 2012, at 10:06 AM, Jason Brooks wrote

Re: [Lustre-discuss] mds backup question

2012-09-19 Thread Andreas Dilger
On 2012-09-19, at 9:36 PM, Jason Brooks wrote: > Now that the getfattr operation is done, here are the specs: > > the mds filesystem (mounted as type ldiskfs) has 7.7 gigabytes in use. > > however, the getfattr operation produced an ascii file that is 20 gigabytes > in size. > > is this reasona