On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: >>> Well, it really should not have much trouble backing them up or restoring >>> them, though the restore may be a bit slower when creating so many files >>> in one directory -- this is really OS and memory size dependent. >> >> It's the restore tree build times that I am worried about, however using >> GFS even running a directory listing stops everything for several minutes. > > Uh, exactly what do you mean by running a directory listing? On the OS, or a > dir command within the Bacula tree restore routines? Once the tree is > built, operations should be relatively fast.
On the OS - as in "ls -U" GFS is more-or-less ext3 based (non-GPL, but same roots) and like most filesystems, large directories cause major headaches. >>> On the other hand, building the Bacula in-memory directory tree using the >>> "restore" command could be *really* slow because to insert each new file >>> in the in memory tree goes something like O(n^2). >> >> Thanks. >> >> I have users with other filesystems with upwards of 6 million small files >> in them, however these don't have large flat directories... > > Are you able to do a Bacula tree restore with 6 million files? Yes, and have done so a few times during tests. AB _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
