On 2016-07-24 14:38, Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz wrote: > > 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 I hesitate to suggest reiserfs... I know it is good in that situation, but I doubt it scales well nowdays. Your filesystems are far bigger than my experience. There was some suggestion that btrfs could do it (without snapshots). But... ? Too green? You could try it up in a spare test server. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE Leap 42.1 x86_64 (test)) _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs