Again, this morning: mesg read: Connection timed out When it's not this message, it's data timeout error on the same DLE, on the same host. There are 3 other disks on this host, with not a signficant
Author: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert AT linux-m68k DOT org>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:15:22 +0200 (CEST)
Perhaps the problem DLE has lots of hard links? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert AT linux-m68k DOT org In personal conversations with techn
Author: Graeme Humphries <graeme.humphries AT vcom DOT com>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:07:58 -0600
Perhaps the problem DLE has lots of hard links? Hard Links ???? As opposed to symbolic links. You'll probably want to read up at Wikipedia on the two if you haven't heard about them before: http://e
2005/8/30, Graeme Humphries <graeme.humphries AT vcom DOT com>: Yes, thanks. I know about hard links. But how would it impact the size or performance of my backups ? And is there a way to find the nu
2005/8/30, Graeme Humphries <graeme.humphries AT vcom DOT com>: Unfortunately, looks like sun's find command does not have the printf option built in. What is strange tough is that if I do a "find /d
Author: Graeme Humphries <graeme.humphries AT vcom DOT com>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:25:59 -0600
Yes, thanks. I know about hard links. But how would it impact the size or performance of my backups ? Well, if a file is hard linked multiple times, it'll be backed up multiple times. Therefor, a fi
When you hit a file with multiple links, two possibilities exist, archive a copy for this and every linked directory entry tar encounters for this file (increasing the archive size and causing unlink
Each time gnutar sees a file with a linkcount > 1, it allocates a structure to keep track of it, so the file can be correctly relinked on restore. If your filesystem has enough of them, you can run g
Well, it looks like all the files with more than 1 link I find on this filesystem are directories. I presume it is normal that a directory has more than one link ?
Author: Graeme Humphries <graeme.humphries AT vcom DOT com>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:53:52 -0600
Well, it looks like all the files with more than 1 link I find on this filesystem are directories. I presume it is normal that a directory has more than one link ? Indeed... now that I think about i
2005/8/30, Graeme Humphries <graeme.humphries AT vcom DOT com>: Yes that's what I think it is. So the "link" lead is not the problem here. I don not have REGULAR files link. So I'm not backing up fil
If you load the companion CD software that came with your Solaris distro you will also have a gfind (gnu find) command. Also obtainable from blastwave.org and others. Then to get a count you could do
Author: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert AT linux-m68k DOT org>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 22:07:31 +0200 (CEST)
Fortunately tar is sufficiently smart to back it up only once. Usually the problem with lots of hard links is not the data timeout value, but the estimate timeout value, as I found out the hard way[*
Author: Steve Wray <stevew-lists AT catalyst.net DOT nz>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:30:47 +1200
We've been having similar problems with estimates timeing out. I just ran the 'find' command given in an earlier email and found a grand total of 607 hard links on the entire filesystem. What I'm won
Author: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert AT linux-m68k DOT org>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:25:25 +0200 (CEST)
Not really, given I have many files with more than 600 hard links. I seem to have 1582186 of them in my cluster of Linux kernel source trees. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's