Eric Mountain wrote: > > Block size used will have a significant influence especially if you are > backing up mostly small files.
Block size given by tune2fs -l and xfs_info is 4096 on both servers. > Note you may wish to reconsider using xfs: it does not support block > journalling, only metadata (see the above link, and also > http://wiki.dirvish.org/?ReiserFSConsideredHarmeful - ReiserFS in Linux now > supports block journalling according to the Wikipedia article, but the > article's main point can probably be applied to XFS). Depends on how > important the data is I suppose... ;-) >From what I understood with XFS the risk is to lose opened files in case of power loss, so it can happen only during backups. That's ok for me considering that I have two Dirvish servers doing backups at different times. _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
