Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Fragmentation of restored file

2009-10-13 09:20:34
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Fragmentation of restored file
From: Tullio Andreatta ML <t.andreatta AT troppoavanti DOT it>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:44:23 +0200
justAck wrote:
> The problem is that copying of restored file is ~20% slower than expected
> (than other files), I doubt if bacula may be a reason of this slowdown (e.g.
> result of restore is very fragmented). 

Fragmentation is not a performance problem on Unix-like filesystems.
"Sparseness" is (see "Sparse file" in Wikipedia).

A sparse file becomes ordinary file if restored.

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