Re: Storage server

[Veljko <veljko3@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 05:44:46PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> On 9/11/2012 10:29 AM, Jon Dowland wrote:
> 
> > Actually, lots and lots of small files is the worst use-case for rsnapshot, and
> > the reason I believe it should be avoided. It creates large hard-link trees and
> > with lots and lots of small files, the filesystem metadata for the trees can
> > consume more space than the files themselves. Also performing operations that
> > need to recurse over large link trees (such as simply removing an old
> > increment) can be very slow in that case.
> 
> Which is why I recommend XFS.  It is exceptionally fast at traversing
> large btrees.  You'll need the 3.2 bpo kernel for Squeeze.  The old as
> dirt 2.6.32 kernel doesn't contain any of the recent (last 3 years)
> metadata optimizations.
> 
> -- 
> Stan

Unlike my boss, whom I faild to persuade to buy RAID card, you confince
me to use XFS. I created 1TB LV for backup (and will resize it when
necessary). Will default XFS be OK in my case?

Regards,
Veljko