Hello. I'm using rsnapshot to backup big servers (like 5TB fs, 25 000 000 inodes, small files - mailboxes in form of maildirs, so each mail is a separate file). Backup server - kernel 4.6.3, V4 xfs filesystems. cp -al for that amount takes about 1.5 day. rm -rf of hardlinked copy takes another 1.5 day (and toons of ram for these operations; causing OOM until recent kernels made reclaim better, so no more OOM) Now the weird part - similar operations on ext4 finish in matter of hours. Are there any possibilities for xfs to improve in these areas? >From irc #xfs from few months ago the conclusion was that xfs isn't best in such operations. ps. Didn't do scientific comparison (I'm just viewing backup logs of two similar mail servers (similar hardware, similar storage size) being backed up to single backup server onto two partitions - one with xfs and one with ext4 on it)) -- Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz, arekm / ( maven.pl | pld-linux.org ) _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
