[Lustre-discuss] backup MDT question

[Jason Rappleye]

On Mar 25, 2009, at 6:53 AM, Thomas Wakefield wrote:

> We just upgraded to 1.6.7 and previously we were using LVM snapshots  
> to backup the MDT.  Now after the jump to 1.6.7 the tar backups are  
> HUGE.  I must be missing something but i can't find it in the  
> documentation.  My backups previously were in the MB's, now i gave  
> up when the tar file passed 20GB, when the MDT is only using 1.8GB  
> of disk space.

Johann, is the update of i_size in bz 11063 causing this? We saw the  
same behavior after upgrading to 1.6.7.

j

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