[DRBD-user] Backup issues with OCFS2

Tristan de CACQUERAY tdecacqueray at wallix.com
Wed Apr 4 14:20:51 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 ?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Pascal.
> 
> 

Pascal,

for your information, rsync doesn't transfer everything each time as it uses a
delta-transfer algorithm to reduce the amount of data transfered!


> 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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