[DRBD-user] Backup issues with OCFS2

Kaloyan Kovachev kkovachev at varna.net
Wed Apr 4 14:19:13 CEST 2012

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On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:12:02 +0200, Pascal BERTON <pascal.berton3 at free.fr>
wrote:
> Dirk,
> 
> Isn't there an error in your numbers ?
> You say that with you non-custered system you transfer 500GB in 400 
> seconds, which means more than a GB per second, and I can't figure out 
> how you can achieve that with 100Mb link that can't run faster than 
> roughly 10MB/s. Or did I miss something ?
> 

yes, _rsync_ does not transfer all 500G of data

> Regards,
> 
> Pascal.
> 
> 
> Le 04/04/2012 12:15, Dirk Bonenkamp - ProActive a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> First off all: I posted a similar thread on the OCFS2 mailing list, but
>> I didn't receive a lot of response. This list seems to be busier, maybe
>> more luck over here...
>>
>> I'm having trouble backing up a OCFS2 file system. I'm using rsync and
I
>> find this way, way slower than rsyncing a 'traditional' file system.
>>
>> The OCFS2 filesytem lives on a double primary DRBD setup. DRBD runs on
>> hardware RAID6, dedicated bonded gigabyte NICs, I get a 160 Mb/s syncer
>> speed. Read and write speeds are OK on the file system.
>>
>> Some figures:
>>
>> My OCFS2 filesystem is 3.7 Tb in size, 200 Gb is used, has about 1.5
>> million files on it in 95 directories. About 3000 new files are added
>> each day, few files are changed.
>>
>> Rsyncing (directlty to the rsync daemon, no ssh shell overhead) this
>> filesystem over a Gb connection takes 70 minutes:
>>
>> Number of files: 1495981
>> Number of files transferred: 2944
>> Total file size: 201701039047 bytes
>> Total transferred file size: 613318155<tel:613318155>  bytes
>> Literal data: 613292255<tel:613292255>  bytes
>> Matched data: 25900 bytes
>> File list size: 24705311
>> File list generation time: 0.001 seconds
>> File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds
>> Total bytes sent: 118692
>> Total bytes received: 638195567<tel:638195567>
>>
>> sent 118692 bytes  received 638195567<tel:638195567>  bytes  154163.57
>> bytes/sec
>> total size is 201701039047  speedup is 315.99
>>
>> To compare this, I have a similar system (the old, non-HA system doing
>> the exact same thing), with an ext3 filesystem. This one holds 6.5
>> million files, 500 Gb, about 10.000 new files a day. Backup done with
>> rsync through ssh on a 100 Mbit line takes 400 seconds.
>>
>> I'd like to know if somebody has encountered similar problems and maybe
>> has some tips / insights for me?
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Dirk
>>
>>
>>
>>
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