Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use?

2013-12-18 Thread Mark Campbell
r 17, 2013 1:34 PM To: Mark Campbell; backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use? Thanks Mark. From the zfs man page for zol it looks like the default compression is lzjb, same as other zfs implementations. I generally use lz4 which is basic

Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use?

2013-12-17 Thread Adam Goryachev
On 18/12/13 03:35, Timothy J Massey wrote: Russell R Poyner wrote on 12/17/2013 11:12:07 AM: > This is a poor comparison since we have different data sets, but it > would appear that BackupPC's internal dedupe and compression is > comparable to, or only slightly worse than what zfs achieves. Th

Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use?

2013-12-17 Thread Russell R Poyner
t were I storing more backups, my 7.5 > fold reduction would skyroc ket even higher. > > Thanks, > > --Mark > > > -Original Message----- > From: Russell R Poyner [mailto:rpoy...@engr.wisc.edu] > Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 11:12 AM > To: backuppc-users@li

Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use?

2013-12-17 Thread Mark Campbell
ring more backups, my 7.5 fold reduction would skyrocke t even higher. Thanks, --Mark -Original Message- From: Russell R Poyner [mailto:rpoy...@engr.wisc.edu] Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 11:12 AM To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Mark Campbell Subject: Re: [BackupPC-

Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use?

2013-12-17 Thread Timothy J Massey
Russell R Poyner wrote on 12/17/2013 11:12:07 AM: > This is a poor comparison since we have different data sets, but it > would appear that BackupPC's internal dedupe and compression is > comparable to, or only slightly worse than what zfs achieves. This in > spite of the expectation that zfs

Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use?

2013-12-17 Thread Russell R Poyner
m > using 557GB of space... Now that's just too cool. > > Thanks, > > --Mark > > > -Original Message- > From: Tim Connors [mailto:tconn...@rather.puzzling.org] > Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 10:00 PM > To: General list for user discussion, questions

Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use?

2013-12-17 Thread Mark Campbell
013 10:00 PM To: General list for user discussion, questions and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use? On Mon, 16 Dec 2013, Timothy J Massey wrote: > One last thing: everyone who uses ZFS raves about it. But seeing as > (on > Linux) you're limited t

Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use?

2013-12-17 Thread Sorin Srbu
From: Timothy J Massey [mailto:tmas...@obscorp.com] Sent: den 16 december 2013 18:23 To: General list for user discussion, questions and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use? Sorin Srbu wrote on 12/16/2013 09:40:56 AM: > Anyway, Anaconda objected at

Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use?

2013-12-16 Thread Tim Connors
On Mon, 16 Dec 2013, Timothy J Massey wrote: > One last thing: everyone who uses ZFS raves about it. But seeing as (on > Linux) you're limited to either FUSE or out-of-tree kernel modules (of > questionable legality: ZFS' CDDL license is *not* GPL compatible), it's > not my first choice for a b

Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use?

2013-12-16 Thread Timothy J Massey
Timothy J Massey wrote on 12/16/2013 02:35:44 PM: > Mark Rosedale wrote on 12/16/2013 09:06:07 AM: > > > I'm working on bringing back a backuppc instance. It is very large 3 > > +TB. The issue I'm having is e2fsck is taking an extremely long time > > to finish. It is stuck on the checking direc

Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use?

2013-12-16 Thread Timothy J Massey
Mark Rosedale wrote on 12/16/2013 09:06:07 AM: > I'm working on bringing back a backuppc instance. It is very large 3 > +TB. The issue I'm having is e2fsck is taking an extremely long time > to finish. It is stuck on the checking directory structure. We are > going on 48 hours. How much RAM do

Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use?

2013-12-16 Thread Kris Lou
FWIW, it looks like RHEL 7 (plus clones) will now default to XFS. Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Michael Stowe wrote: > > > I'm working on bringing back a backuppc instance. It is very large 3+TB. > > The issue I'm having is e2fsck is taking an extremely long t

Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use?

2013-12-16 Thread Timothy J Massey
Sorin Srbu wrote on 12/16/2013 09:40:56 AM: > Anyway, Anaconda objected at my choosing ext4 for the 40 TB raid-array when I > recently set up a new system, and defaulted to xfs instead. EXT4 won't support file systems >16TB at all with 4k blocks, and depending on OS and tool version, the tool

Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use?

2013-12-16 Thread Michael Stowe
> I'm working on bringing back a backuppc instance. It is very large 3+TB. > The issue I'm having is e2fsck is taking an extremely long time to finish. > It is stuck on the checking directory structure. We are going on 48 hours. > > So I'm wondering what other file systems do you guys use? Any > r

Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use?

2013-12-16 Thread Sorin Srbu
> -Original Message- > From: Mark Rosedale [mailto:mrosed...@vivox.com] > Sent: den 16 december 2013 15:06 > To: General list for user discussion, questions and support > Subject: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use? > > I'm working on bringing back a bac

Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use?

2013-12-16 Thread Mike
On 13-12-16 10:06 AM, Mark Rosedale wrote: > I'm working on bringing back a backuppc instance. It is very large 3+TB. The > issue I'm having is e2fsck is taking an extremely long time to finish. It is > stuck on the checking directory structure. We are going on 48 hours. > > So I'm wondering wha

[BackupPC-users] What file system do you use?

2013-12-16 Thread Mark Rosedale
I'm working on bringing back a backuppc instance. It is very large 3+TB. The issue I'm having is e2fsck is taking an extremely long time to finish. It is stuck on the checking directory structure. We are going on 48 hours. So I'm wondering what other file systems do you guys use? Any recommenda