[OpenAFS-devel] vos dump/volserver slowness/lack of buffering?

[Troy Benjegerdes]

Has anyone looked into making volserver/vos dump go any faster? Is there
any way to coalesce multiple small files into one RPC call, or
pre-buffer files from disk?

I'm seeing around an average of 10MB/sec, and performance goes in the
toilet when the volume has lots of small files.

This has basically prevented vos backup/etc from ever being able to go
fast enough to get my DLT8000 drive to stream, and I think probably
prematurely wore out one of my drives.

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