On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:01:38AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Well, since dump works at the partition level, it may be that dump and LVM 
> aren't compatible.  Switch to tar, which is file oriented & see what 
> happens.

Looks like I'm hitting nearly the same speed situation.  I backed up
7932MiB in 2460 seconds (I got impatient...) which comes out to about
3-4MiB/s.

Since tar behaves the same way, I think I'm going to play around with
various record sizes when reading from LVM.  Something in the blokc
layer is shooting my transfer rates.

-- 
Ross Vandegrift
ross AT kallisti DOT us

"The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who
make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians
have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine
man in the bonds of Hell."
        --St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37