* Alexandre Biancalana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071221 15:53] wrote: > On 12/21/07, Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > What application are you scanning these files with? I know I had > > issues with rsync in particular where I had to have it rsync > > smaller pieces of a collection for it to work nicely instead of > > going for the whole heirarchy. > > tar > > I run tar in the /backup/<hostname>/YYYYMMDD writing to LTO3 tape > drive, the problem is that when origin directory contains a lot of > small files the process is *much* more slow.... this is my question > since the thread start.
Have you tried the 'noatime' mount option? That should help. Can you provide a histogram of the count of files per directory? -- - Alfred Perlstein _______________________________________________ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
