On Wed, January 27, 2010 10:06, Sorin Srbu wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Michael Stowe [mailto:mstowe AT chicago.us.mensa DOT org]
>>Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 4:31 PM
>>To: sorin.srbu AT orgfarm.uu DOT se; General list for user discussion, 
>>questions
> and
>>support
>>Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Distro choice
>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>> Would it be a significant improvement, generally speaking, to use xfs
>>> instead of ext3 on a BackupPC-server?
>>
>>Definitely.
>
> Would that be a simple matter of just reformatting the raid-array with xfs
> and then restart the backuping to it, or do I need to do something else as
> well?
>
> --
> /Sorin

make sure you've got xfsprogs installed (you probably won't get too far
formatting the fs for xfs without it...)  and verify support in your
kernel.

grep CONFIG_XFS_FS /usr/src/linux/.config



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