BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which FS? (was: Keeping servers in sync)

2009-08-31 11:17:57
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Which FS? (was: Keeping servers in sync)
From: Christian Völker <chrischan AT knebb DOT de>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:15:19 +0200
Yohoo!
> With backuppc the issue is not so much fragmentation within a file as 
> the distance between the directory entry, the inode, and the file 
> content.  When creating a new file, filesystems generally attempt to 
> allocate these close to each other, but when you link an existing file 
> into a new directory, that obviously can't be done so you end up with a 
> lot of long seeks when you try to traverse directories picking up the 
> inode info.
Makes sense to me. Is there any FS which would be recommended for best
performance?

Thanks for hints...

Christian

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