From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian Tinsley Subject: Re: Legato (was: what do you do that stresses your filesystem? Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 11:00:26 -0600 Message-ID: <3E1864AA.7020209@emageon.com> References: <3E06F360.7000708@namesys.com> <3E0D364F.1010008@emageon.com> <3E17EA01.1080309@namesys.com> <20030105114942.GN24344@hvs.envisage.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Hendrik Visage Cc: ReiserFS Hendrik Visage wrote: >It's also an interesting thing to see the impact of the traversing >of the filesystem during backups. > > This is something that is hurting us badly right now! When our backup product starts scanning half terabyte filesystems with millions of files, it can essentially bring the machine to its knees (i.e., system time stays in the 90% range). -- -[========================]- -[ Brian Tinsley ]- -[ Chief Systems Engineer ]- -[ Emageon ]- -[========================]-