[Ocfs2-users] Slow backups, slow rsync

[Sunil Mushran]

Which kernel?
uname -a?

block/cluster sizes?
debugfs.ocfs2 -R "stats" /dev/sdX

How many nodes in your cluster?

memory?
cat /proc/meminfo

Michael Moody wrote:
>
> I use rsync to take backups of my ocfs2 filesystems (since nothing 
> else really supports it out of the box). Unfortunately, it’s very 
> slow, on the order of 10 times slower than the same files on a 
> reiserfs filesystem. The filesystems contain about 100gb of data, 
> though I’m backing up nearly 2 million files, and that grows every day 
> (it’s a webroot for a few webservers).
>
> I heard rumors of dir hashing back in the day, any idea when anything 
> that will help my current situation will be added?
>
> I thought of using inotify coupled with ocfs2 to take backups in real 
> time, unfortunately, inotify doesn’t seem to work with ocfs2, which is 
> unfortunate.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Michael
>
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