Hello All, A full backup of an 2 billion inodes spectrum scale file system on V4.1.1.16 takes 60 days.
We try to optimize and using inode scans seems to improve, even when we are using a directory scan and the inode scan just for having a better performance concerning stat (using gpfs_stat_inode_with_xattrs64). With 20 processes in parallel doing dir scans (+ inode scans for stat info) we have decreased the time to 40 days. All NSDs are dataAndMetadata type. I have the following questions: · Is there a way to increase the inode scan cache (we may use 32 GByte)? o Can we us the "hidden" config parameters § iscanPrefetchAggressiveness 2 § iscanPrefetchDepth 0 § iscanPrefetchThreadsPerNode 0 · Is there a documentation concerning cache behavior? o if no, is the inode scan cache process or node specific? o Is there a suggestion to optimize the termIno parameter in the gpfs_stat_inode_with_xattrs64() in such a use case? Thanks! Best regards, Tomasz Wolski
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