Re: Speed up xfsdump ?

[Nicolas Kowalski <Nicolas.Kowalski@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, dean gaudet wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Nicolas Kowalski wrote:
> 
> > PS: as an additional test, on the same array/server, I created an ext3 
> >     filesystem, pushed the same files than for the XFS/xfsdump 
> >     tests, and ran a dump session:
> 
> if the xfs filesystem was created "live" and had files added/deleted 
> along the way it's likely to be more fragmented than a freshly created 
> ext3 filesystem which had a bunch of files copied to it right after 
> being created... one more test you might want to do is a fresh xfs fs 
> which you populate the same way you populated the ext3 fs.

That's what I do: all my tests with xfsdump are done on a newly 
created/populated filesystem, so that fragmentation does not "corrupt" 
my results.

-- 
Nicolas