On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 14:58 -0600, Bill Kendall wrote: > When doing multi-stream dumps, the directories are dumped by each > stream in lock-step fashion. A stream backs up a given directory, > then waits for all others to finish that directory, then they all > move on to the next one. During restore a single stream is chosen to > apply the directory dump. > > This patch changes xfsdump so that only one stream dumps the > directories. The other streams begin dumping files immediately. > This results in a faster backup, which is presumably why multiple > streams are being used in the first place. > > It also removes the barrier routines in qlock.c as they were only > used by the "SYNCDIR" code. > > Signed-off-by: Bill Kendall <wkendall@xxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Nice change. Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@xxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
