Re: [CentOS] Filesystem choice for BackupPC extrenal drive

2021-02-04 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2021-02-05 01:41 Kenneth Porter ha scritto: I'm setting up a CentOS 7 box as a BackupPC 4 server to back up Windows boxes on my LAN. I'm using an external 1.5 TB USB drive for the "pool". BackupPC deduplicates by saving all files in a pool, a directory hiearchy with each file named for the che

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem choice for BackupPC extrenal drive

2021-02-04 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
XFS is suitable for parallel workload, so I would pick ext4 for this case. Here is a quote from https://access.redhat.com/articles/3129891 : Another way to characterize this is that the Ext4 file system variants tend to perform better on systems that have limited I/O capability. Ext3 and Ext4 per

[CentOS] Filesystem choice for BackupPC extrenal drive

2021-02-04 Thread Kenneth Porter
I'm setting up a CentOS 7 box as a BackupPC 4 server to back up Windows boxes on my LAN. I'm using an external 1.5 TB USB drive for the "pool". BackupPC deduplicates by saving all files in a pool, a directory hiearchy with each file named for the checksum of the file, and the directories acting