UFS2 optimization for many small files

Claus Guttesen kometen at gmail.com
Sun Jul 1 18:57:43 UTC 2007


> > Try zfs on amd64 unless your app doesn't work well with zfs or your
>
> does zfs have RELIABLE and USABLE software allowing to efficiently backup
> large filesystems to other media? (DVD's, tapes, other hard discs)

Zfs has send/receive where you can do snapshots and send them to a
different host. This could be your backup-host. I'm considering this
solution myself where FreeBSD and zfs is my primary host and my
nightly backups will be send to my solaris-host. Solaris has the
required lto-3-drivers.

-- 
regards
Claus

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom,
the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner.

Shakespeare


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