On Mar 25, 2008, at 6:29 PM, Martin Simmons wrote: >>>>>> On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:23:17 -0400, Dan Langille said: >> >> On Mar 25, 2008, at 12:55 PM, Kern Sibbald wrote: >> >>> What do you think? Any other ideas? >> >> Keep the data on disk. Utilize the OS file-system caching. >> >> I don't know what structure to put it in. But if the file is small, >> it will fly. >> If the data is large, the OS will do the caching for us and us as >> much >> RAM as possible. > > There is a possible flaw in that logic: the disk cache might be > overloaded > already due to the FD reading lots of files/dirs during the backup.
Noted. Regardless, the OS is better at handling caching than we are. :) -- Dan Langille -- http://www.langille.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
