On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Eugene Melamud wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I am getting really miserable results from xfsdump when mirroring large
> filesystem over network.
> The command I run on the source computer is this.
>
> xfsdump -A -J - /dev/sda1 | ssh node22 xfsrestore -J -A - /backup
>
http://oss.sgi.com/archives/linux-xfs/2005-05/msg00166.html
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> There is an initial slow down when xfsdump computes tree and inode attributes
> for transfer, but
> after that I would think it should really kick in. May be it has something to
> do with operating
> system, ( RHEL3 on source machine, CentOS4 on destination, xfsdump version
> 2.2.25-1). I know I
> know,I should have gone with SUSE.
If RHEL3 doesn't support ihashsize, you should try newer kernel.
jan
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