Re: Storage server
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
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