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.

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