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SubjectRe: very poor ext3 write performance on big filesystems?
Theodore Tso schrieb:

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>> What has helped a bit was to recreate the file system with -O^dir_index
>> dir_index seems to cause more seeks.
>
> Part of it may have simply been recreating the filesystem, not
> necessarily removing the dir_index feature.

You mean, copy data somewhere else, mkfs a new filesystem, and copy data
back?

Unfortunately, doing it on a file level is not possible with a
reasonable amount of time.

I tried to copy that filesystem once (when it was much smaller) with
"rsync -a -H", but after 3 days, rsync was still building an index and
didn't copy any file.


Also, as files/hardlinks come and go, it would degrade again.


Are there better choices than ext3 for a filesystem with lots of
hardlinks? ext4, once it's ready? xfs?


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Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org


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