Re: backup of backup or alternating backups?
On Tue 08 Oct 2024 at 06:37:43 (+0200), tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2024 at 08:44:44PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> > On Mon Oct 7, 2024 at 9:37 AM BST, Michel Verdier wrote:
> > > Do you mean inodes expensive ? Which filesystem do you used ?
> >
> > It was 18 years ago so I can't remember that clearly, but I think it was
> > a mixture of inodes expense and an enlarged amount of CPU time with the
> > file churn (mails moved from new to cur, and later to a separate archive
> > Maildir, that sort of thing). It was probably ext3 given the time.
>
> Note that the transition to Ext4 must have been around 2006, making
> huge directories viable (HTree). So perhaps this is a factor too.
Perhaps you're on the inside track with respect to Debian.
I didn't use ext4 at all until it was added to the squeeze
installer (Feb 2011), and only when I was sure that a lenny
ext3 installation would not need to read a file from a
squeeze-written ext4 partition on the same machine.
I think I eliminated my last ext3 partition at the end of 2014.
(I was extremely conservative with my laptop during part of
2013/2014, as I was totally reliant on this sole machine to be
trouble-free.)
Cheers,
David.
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