Re: [BackupPC-users] Which FS?

Hi again

On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 19:26:29 -0600, dan <dandenson AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> This is somewhat dependant on filesystem and IO Scheduler of the OS.
> Some  filesystems excel under IO loads (ZFS) but shrivel and die under RAM
> pressure(ZFS)

        strange, was not really my experience...
        before i used backuppc, i used a hand made rsync script on
        a solaris with ZFS and during the backups the machine as dog
        slow and trying to use the ZFS filesystem took seconds
        and even minutes...but still had free ram (about 2GB)

        maybe because i had just 2 HDs and for several times i
        manage to fill 100% the ZFS (i found that with 0 bytes
        free, you cant delete anything, just a echo > big_file
        would help there). it was still too new and buggy for sure,
        and i probably stressed too much that poor XFS :)

        i gave up that ZFS and script after a powerlost and the ZFS
        didnt come online no matter what i did... after 2 days of
        unsuccessful tries, i installed backuppc.

cya
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