From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id q497ao0Q079759 for ; Wed, 9 May 2012 02:36:50 -0500 Received: from mail.profihost.ag (mail.profihost.ag [85.158.179.208]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id gwZQPNuRIcmuuimW (version=TLSv1 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 09 May 2012 00:36:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FAA1E89.2050509@profihost.ag> Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 09:36:41 +0200 From: Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: suddenly slow writes on XFS Filesystem References: <4FA63DDA.9070707@profihost.ag> <20120507013456.GW5091@dastard> <4FA76E11.1070708@profihost.ag> <20120507071713.GZ5091@dastard> <4FA77842.5010703@profihost.ag> <4FA7FA14.6080700@hardwarefreak.com> <4FA82B07.1020102@profihost.ag> <4FAA153D.1030606@hardwarefreak.com> <20120509070450.GP5091@dastard> In-Reply-To: <20120509070450.GP5091@dastard> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Dave Chinner Cc: Stan Hoeppner , "xfs@oss.sgi.com" Am 09.05.2012 09:04, schrieb Dave Chinner: >> So the best solution to your current problem, and one that will save you >> disk space and thus $$, is to use a backup solution that makes use of >> both tar and gzip/bzip2. > > Why use the slow method? xfsdump will be much faster than tar. :) I tried to use it in this special case but it is hanging on dumping directories for 3 hours now or is this normal? Stefan _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs