From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lucio De Re To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Ken's file server - insurmountable problem? Message-ID: <20040113072558.E4316@cackle.proxima.alt.za> References: <20040112205558.D4316@cackle.proxima.alt.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from Charles Forsyth on Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:13:17PM +0000 Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 07:25:58 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: b7edd6c2-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:13:17PM +0000, Charles Forsyth wrote: > > >>and I don't really understand how to get around this problem. > > you'll need to type dump periodically during the copy, to flush the cache. > that often works. OK, I can perhaps do that, but deleting a whole lot of stuff, triggering a dump and waiting for it to complete, then trying to continue the copy (mkfs is clever not to copy unchanged files, so the deletedd files were restored) didn't make a noticeable difference. > the cache typically needs to be larger than the largest potential file Maybe more memory? I have a puny 32 Meg, maybe I need more of that? It's a bit of a problem getting more, but I would like to know if it's worth searching. ++L