Jeffrey J. Kosowsky <backuppc <at> kosowsky.org> writes:

> Are you using lvm snapshots?
> It seems that some of my terribly slow recent performance has been due
> to having lvm snapshots. I saw a site that claimed lvm snapshots in
> practice can degrade write performance up to 20-30x...
> 
> lvm snapshots also made deleting old file trees *incredibly* slow

You are right; they do make things slow.  But I'm not using them.

-- John



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