On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Frank Smith wrote:
>   As for the estimates, are you using dump or tar?  Look in the
> *debug files on the clients and see which one was taking all the time
> (I'm guessing venus since it looks like you did a force on bda1).
> Does that filesystem have millions of small files?

Or lots of hard links? I keep many quasi-identical source trees using hard
links (so identical files consume disk space only once), but it increases the
time to estimate a lot.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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