Subject: Re: Terrible tar performance on RAID 0 filesystem
To: Greg Oster <oster@cs.usask.ca>
From: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.yi.org>
List: current-users
Date: 03/12/2001 20:09:36
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Greg Oster wrote:
> "Jared D. McNeill" writes:
> > On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Greg Oster wrote:
> > > Ya... "sucky numbers" here...
> > > If this is a freshly created set (i.e. no real data on it yet) then
> > > maybe try something like:
> >
> > I already have a bunch of junk on it, so I can't do that...
>
> :-/
If you don't mind walking me through properly setting it up again, I can
remove anything I don't need and tar the rest.
> > It's not just this one file -- any tar file (using tar or pax), moving a
> > directory to the array, creating a directory (mkdir foo took something
> > like 12 seconds, but rmdir foo took almost no time at all). cvs is also
> > slow.. but if I download a file with for example ftp, it comes through
> > at full speed.
>
> That sounds like PR#11989 all right... :(
Just my luck!
Jared