[Fedora] Re: Alternatives to du

[Les Mikesell]

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.

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   Les Mikesell
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