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Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc 3.0.0: another xfs problem?

2008-12-19 19:54:28
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc 3.0.0: another xfs problem?
From: Chris Robertson <crobertson AT gci DOT net>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:52:42 -0900
dan wrote:
> If the disk usage is the same as before the pool, the issue isnt 
> hardlinks not being maintained.  I am not convinced that XFS is an 
> ideal filesystem.  I'm sure it has it's merits, but I have lost data 
> on 3 filesystems ever, FAT*, XFS and NTFS.  I have never lost data on 
> reiserfs3 or ext2,3. 
>
> Additionally, I am not convinced that it performs any better than ext3 
> in real world workloads.  I have see many comparisons showing XFS 
> marginally faster in some operations, and much faster for file 
> deletions and a few other things, but these are all simulated 
> workloads and I have never seen a comparison running all of these 
> various operations in mixed operation.  how about mixing 100MB random 
> reads with 10MB sequential writes on small files and deleting 400 
> hardlinks?
>
> I say switch back to ext3.

Creating or resizing (you do a proper fsck before and after resizing, 
don't you?) an ext3 filesystem greater than about 50GB is painful.  The 
larger the filesystem, the more painful it gets.  Having to guess the 
number of inodes you are going to need at filesystem creation is a nice 
bonus.

EXT4, btrfs, or Tux3 can't get here (and stable!) fast enough.

Chris

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