Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] backing up automounted FS

2016-03-31 14:23:13
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] backing up automounted FS
From: Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk AT bmrb.wisc DOT edu>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 13:20:39 -0500
On 03/31/2016 12:35 PM, Lloyd Brown wrote:

> ...  Unfortunately, I'm
> not exaggerating to say that we have users with file profiles that
> consist of 35million files (or more) with average file sizes less than
> 10kb.  The user might be long-gone, and eligible for deletion, but it
> takes forever to spider that filesystem, and occasionally causes
> problems like directory cache thrashing, etc.

"I don't have a solution but I admire the problem". How long would
bacula take to stat 35M files?

-- 
Dimitri Maziuk
Programmer/sysadmin
BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu

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