Re: suddenly slow writes on XFS Filesystem

Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-05-09T07:36:50Z

Am 09.05.2012 09:04, schrieb Dave Chinner:
>> So the best solution to your current problem, and one that will save you
>> disk space and thus $$, is to use a backup solution that makes use of
>> both tar and gzip/bzip2.
>
> Why use the slow method? xfsdump will be much faster than tar. :)
I tried to use it in this special case but it is hanging on dumping
directories for 3 hours now or is this normal?

Stefan