[Fedora] Re: Alternatives to du
Mark Haney
mhaney at ercbroadband.org
Wed Apr 11 12:30:18 UTC 2007
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
>>> I started a du on my 250 gig backuppc partition when I read the first
>>> message in this thread. It hasn't finished yet. It doesn't have a
>>> single very large directory - just very many filenames. I thought
>>> this thread was about du taking a long time to complete, not just one
>>> kind of layout that exhibits the problem.
>>
>> Ok That is interesting and since its not a single very large directory
>> ought not to be happening
>>
>> Your backuppc partition is on what kind of media and file system ?
>
> It's a reiserfs created several years ago on RAID1/IDE drives. At the
> time it seemed much faster at creating/deleting files than the other
> filesystem choices. The status for the hashed/pooled filename directory
> says:
> Pool is 162.22GB comprising 2576727 files and 4369 directories
> But there are many more hardlinks into this pool representing the tree
> structure of each of the machines for each backup run.
>
> If the du ever finishes I'll get a count of actual filenames.
>
You know, I have a lot of hardlinks in my filesystem as well. I wonder
if that's some of the problem on my end, too.
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Mark Haney
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ERC Broadband
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