Les Mikesell schrieb:
> Christoph Litauer wrote:
>>>
>> Thanks a lot Adam!
>> In the meantime I discussed my problem on the xfs mailing list. We are 
>> not finished yet, but adding mount option "nobarrier" reduced my 
>> performance problems significantly. I am still in contact to clarify 
>> if it's possible to optimize the usage of inode allocation groups. We 
>> will see ...
>>
> 
> Filesystem optimization that tries to allocate files or inodes near 
> their containing directory isn't likely to help with backuppc since most 
> directory entries end up being hard links to content in some more or 
> less random location - wherever the first copy was stored.
> 

Full acknowledge! xfs supports a mount option inode64 which - according 
to the xfs mailing list - would avoid the search for "near inodes". But 
inode64 is only available on 64 bit systems ...

-- 
Regards
Christoph
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