[OpenAFS] vos move speed rates

Harald Barth haba@kth.se
Tue, 12 Apr 2011 23:14:09 +0200 (CEST)


> Do the contents of a volume have an impact on the speed at which they
> are moved? That is, if it's composed of many smaller files, does the
> metadata cause overhead, slowing the transfer down? 

The volume cloning does MANY file system operations i /vicep*/,
several for each file in the volume.

> Are there any tricks to making slower volumes move more quickly?

I'd say: Use a /vicep*/ file system that performs well on file create,
link and delete.

No, I don't have any hard numbers to show you and no time to correlate
some numbers on some vos move logfiles that I should have lying
around. But if someone wants to spend time analyze the numbers from my
logfiles, I would be happy to share some logs with you.

Harald.