Here's a thought...

I'm trying to speed up my Flashbackup backups.  The way I understand it is
that flashbackup makes an inode mapping of the filesystem your backing up
and then writes this inode map to tape.  It will then write the raw
partition to tape.
Given these activities, the more inodes you have the longer the overall
process (at least the inode mapping).  So let's say I've got two filesystems
of the same size but filesystem A has half as many inodes as filesystem B
because it uses a large number of hardlinks.  Does in not stand to reason
that filesystem A would back up faster (at least the inode mapping portion
because there are fewer inodes to map)?  Thanks.

-Dave
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David Cornely
San Diego Storage Team
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