Re: [OpenAFS] Removing a backup volume

2007-07-25 Thread Frank Burkhardt
Hi, On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 06:17:43PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Frank Burkhardt wrote: Hi, I did some benchmarks to find out, which filesystem is best: http://fbo.no-ip.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Instantafs/WhichFs thanks for sharing this. Are you

Re: [OpenAFS] Removing a backup volume

2007-07-24 Thread Dan Pritts
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 05:19:37PM +0200, Frank Burkhardt wrote: http://fbo.no-ip.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Instantafs/WhichFs Your document says: Keep in mind that ext3 sometimes thinks , it's necessary to fsck (e.g. after 1 year or 26x mounting). This is tunable with tune2fs and I think

Re: [OpenAFS] Removing a backup volume

2007-07-20 Thread Frank Burkhardt
Hi, I did some benchmarks to find out, which filesystem is best: http://fbo.no-ip.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Instantafs/WhichFs Now my boss want's me to use ext3, I would prefer reiser3 - difficult decision :-) . Regards, Frank ___ OpenAFS-info mailing

Re: [OpenAFS] Removing a backup volume

2007-07-20 Thread Kim Kimball
Thanks for this, Frank. Kim Kimball Frank Burkhardt wrote: Hi, I did some benchmarks to find out, which filesystem is best: http://fbo.no-ip.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Instantafs/WhichFs Now my boss want's me to use ext3, I would prefer reiser3 - difficult decision :-) . Regards, Frank

Re: [OpenAFS] Removing a backup volume

2007-07-20 Thread Michael C Garrison
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Frank Burkhardt wrote: Hi, I did some benchmarks to find out, which filesystem is best: http://fbo.no-ip.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Instantafs/WhichFs Now my boss want's me to use ext3, I would prefer reiser3 - difficult decision :-) . What version of OpenAFS did you test

Re: [OpenAFS] Removing a backup volume

2007-07-20 Thread Stephan . Wiesand
Hi, On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Frank Burkhardt wrote: Hi, I did some benchmarks to find out, which filesystem is best: http://fbo.no-ip.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Instantafs/WhichFs thanks for sharing this. Are you reading linux-ide-arrays? There was a thread this week where someone pointed out

Re: [OpenAFS] Removing a backup volume

2007-07-20 Thread Michael C Garrison
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Frank Burkhardt wrote: Sorry. It's 1.4.4 - I just updated the page. Cool. I imagine your XFS performance would improve greatly with the no fsync patch that's been discussed on here. And a few comments on reiser. If you ever need to do a fsck on it (which we have

Re: [OpenAFS] Removing a backup volume

2007-07-20 Thread Steve Simmons
On Jul 20, 2007, at 2:18 PM, Michael C Garrison wrote: On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Frank Burkhardt wrote: Sorry. It's 1.4.4 - I just updated the page. Cool. I imagine your XFS performance would improve greatly with the no fsync patch that's been discussed on here. And a few comments on

Re: [OpenAFS] Removing a backup volume

2007-06-25 Thread Steven Jenkins
On 6/18/07, Frank Burkhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm currently removing a backup clone which belongs to a volume containing ~ 55 GB in ~ 102000 files. 'vos status' shows a DeleteVolume transaction which is running since 63 min now. Is it supposed to take that long? I've seen this on

Re: [OpenAFS] Removing a backup volume

2007-06-25 Thread Derrick Brashear
On 6/25/07, Steven Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/18/07, Frank Burkhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm currently removing a backup clone which belongs to a volume containing ~ 55 GB in ~ 102000 files. 'vos status' shows a DeleteVolume transaction which is running since 63 min

Re: [OpenAFS] Removing a backup volume

2007-06-25 Thread Steven Jenkins
On 6/25/07, Derrick Brashear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/25/07, Steven Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:... The root problem here is the underlying filesystem presumably offers poor performance for deleting files, and the way to fix it is to use a filesystem that doesn't. Deleting a volume

Re: [OpenAFS] Removing a backup volume

2007-06-25 Thread Frank Burkhardt
Hi, On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 04:46:29PM -0400, Steven Jenkins wrote: On 6/25/07, Derrick Brashear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/25/07, Steven Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:... The root problem here is the underlying filesystem presumably offers poor performance for deleting files,

[OpenAFS] Removing a backup volume

2007-06-18 Thread Frank Burkhardt
Hi, I'm currently removing a backup clone which belongs to a volume containing ~ 55 GB in ~ 102000 files. 'vos status' shows a DeleteVolume transaction which is running since 63 min now. Is it supposed to take that long? I've seen this on all of our file servers - especially when performing