Re: [BackupPC-users] No more free inodes

2012-10-24 Thread Frédéric Massot
Le 23/10/2012 14:47, Les Mikesell a écrit : On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 3:23 AM, Frédéric Massot frede...@juliana-multimedia.com wrote: Just curious: does the content you back up consist mostly of tiny files without much duplication? It seems odd to run out of inodes while still having

Re: [BackupPC-users] No more free inodes

2012-10-23 Thread Frédéric Massot
Le 15/10/2012 17:05, Les Mikesell a écrit : On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Frédéric Massot frede...@juliana-multimedia.com wrote: The problem is that the original file system (ext4) has no inode available and increasing the size of an ext4 file system does not increase the number of the

Re: [BackupPC-users] No more free inodes

2012-10-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 3:23 AM, Frédéric Massot frede...@juliana-multimedia.com wrote: Just curious: does the content you back up consist mostly of tiny files without much duplication? It seems odd to run out of inodes while still having substantial disk space. I used the command df -i

Re: [BackupPC-users] No more free inodes

2012-10-15 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 10/14 06:30 , Frederic MASSOT wrote: I started copying Backuppc data from /var/lib/backuppc (ext4) to the temporary directory /mnt/backuppc-new (xfs) with the command cp -a. Due to the hardlinks, the only way to copy the backuppc data pool from one set of disks to another at anything like

Re: [BackupPC-users] No more free inodes

2012-10-15 Thread Frédéric Massot
Le 15/10/2012 15:32, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom a écrit : On 10/14 06:30 , Frederic MASSOT wrote: I started copying Backuppc data from /var/lib/backuppc (ext4) to the temporary directory /mnt/backuppc-new (xfs) with the command cp -a. Due to the hardlinks, the only way to copy the backuppc data

Re: [BackupPC-users] No more free inodes

2012-10-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom chr...@real-time.com wrote: On 10/14 06:30 , Frederic MASSOT wrote: I started copying Backuppc data from /var/lib/backuppc (ext4) to the temporary directory /mnt/backuppc-new (xfs) with the command cp -a. Due to the hardlinks, the only

Re: [BackupPC-users] No more free inodes

2012-10-15 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 10/15 04:40 , Frédéric Massot wrote: The problem is that the original file system (ext4) has no inode available and increasing the size of an ext4 file system does not increase the number of the inode. To have no more inode problem the new filesystem is xfs, so I can not copy data with

Re: [BackupPC-users] No more free inodes

2012-10-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Frédéric Massot frede...@juliana-multimedia.com wrote: The problem is that the original file system (ext4) has no inode available and increasing the size of an ext4 file system does not increase the number of the inode. To have no more inode problem the new

Re: [BackupPC-users] No more free inodes

2012-10-14 Thread Frederic MASSOT
Le 14/10/2012 18:01, Frederic MASSOT a écrit : Le 08/10/2012 13:47, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom a écrit : On 10/08 11:07 , Frédéric Massot wrote: After moving the BackupPC data on the new logical volume and thus the new file system, the old logical volume will no longer be used. I could

Re: [BackupPC-users] No more free inodes

2012-10-14 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Frederic MASSOT frede...@juliana-multimedia.com wrote: But now it is very slow, the speed is closer to 1 GB in 12 hours, or more. It remains to be copied 200 GB, I can not wait 100 days! Copy of cpool and log was performed, the slowness comes from the copy

Re: [BackupPC-users] No more free inodes

2012-10-08 Thread Frédéric Massot
Le 07/10/2012 23:56, Michael Stowe a écrit : The file system has the option resize_inode is that it can help to increase the size or number of inode? resize_inode is a flag you can set when you first create the filesystem, that makes it easier to expand the file system later. Again, when

Re: [BackupPC-users] No more free inodes

2012-10-08 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 10/08 11:07 , Frédéric Massot wrote: After moving the BackupPC data on the new logical volume and thus the new file system, the old logical volume will no longer be used. I could delete it but how I could use this free space? Expand your new volume and filesystem to use it. Are you using

Re: [BackupPC-users] No more free inodes

2012-10-08 Thread Frédéric Massot
Le 08/10/2012 13:47, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom a écrit : On 10/08 11:07 , Frédéric Massot wrote: After moving the BackupPC data on the new logical volume and thus the new file system, the old logical volume will no longer be used. I could delete it but how I could use this free space? Expand

Re: [BackupPC-users] No more free inodes

2012-10-08 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 10/08 03:01 , Frédéric Massot wrote: I thought I would increase the size of the new file system, but my concern is not having the same problem with a lack of inode in a few years. From what I've read, if I chose XFS instead of ext4, I would not have this problem of lack of inode.

Re: [BackupPC-users] No more free inodes

2012-10-07 Thread Frederic MASSOT
Le 04/10/2012 20:56, Michael Stowe a écrit : The inode number of the ext4 is static. - How can I do to increase the number of inodes? The number of ext4 inodes are set when the ext4 volume is created, so, you have to recreate the file system. Perhaps using an alternative to ext4. I

Re: [BackupPC-users] No more free inodes

2012-10-07 Thread Michael Stowe
The file system has the option resize_inode is that it can help to increase the size or number of inode? resize_inode is a flag you can set when you first create the filesystem, that makes it easier to expand the file system later. Again, when you first create... so ... no. So I must create

Re: [BackupPC-users] No more free inodes

2012-10-05 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-10-04 19:56, Michael Stowe wrote: The inode number of the ext4 is static. - How can I do to increase the number of inodes? The number of ext4 inodes are set when the ext4 volume is created, so, you have to recreate the file system. Perhaps using an alternative to ext4. I wonder

Re: [BackupPC-users] No more free inodes

2012-10-05 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 3:58 AM, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote: On 2012-10-04 19:56, Michael Stowe wrote: The inode number of the ext4 is static. - How can I do to increase the number of inodes? The number of ext4 inodes are set when the ext4 volume is created, so, you have to

Re: [BackupPC-users] No more free inodes

2012-10-05 Thread Ray Frush
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 6:42 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder what caused this. My BackupPC filesystem was created with default mkfs.ext4, and has used far more disk space than inodes: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/md03.6T 1.6T 2.1T

Re: [BackupPC-users] No more free inodes

2012-10-05 Thread Ray Frush
I can't math today, I have the dumb... On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Ray Frush ray.fr...@avagotech.com wrote: Out of curiosity, I checked some of our primary storage, where we have a mix of lots (over 1Billion) of really small files and some large databases, and found we're using about 7

[BackupPC-users] No more free inodes

2012-10-04 Thread Frédéric Massot
Hi, The night's backup has not worked, in logs there is an error message on the hards links. I rebooted the server to do a fsck. It found no error, but did not start backuppc. In the log there : Can't create a test hardlink between a file in /var/lib/backuppc/pc and /var/lib/backuppc/cpool.

Re: [BackupPC-users] No more free inodes

2012-10-04 Thread Michael Stowe
The inode number of the ext4 is static. - How can I do to increase the number of inodes? The number of ext4 inodes are set when the ext4 volume is created, so, you have to recreate the file system. Perhaps using an alternative to ext4. - I can replace one by one the 500GB drives with 1TB