Migrate large amount of small files

[Mike Tancsa]

At 11:46 AM 10/10/2009, Ckcheng wrote:
>Hi all,
>Currently, I have a directory with over 5M small files (1~32K). Now,
>I want to transfer this directory to another machine and found
>that it's extremely slow and painful process. I tried the following
>method:

It might help if you mount all -onoatime as well as bump up 
vfs.ufs.dirhash_maxmem to 4x the default size

         ---Mike

>1. rsync
>2. tar via ssh
>3. tar via nc
>(all take hours and hours to finish)
>
>None of them is able to give me a reasonable migration time. So, I'm
>here for asking help. Any suggestion is extremely welcomed. Thank you.
>
>Btw, here is brief information of my server. (both machines are the same)
>
>OS: FreeBSD 6.4-Stable 64Bit
>CPU: 2 x Xeon L5420 2.50GHz
>RAM: 2 x 2G ECC DDR2-667 (full buffered)
>DISK: Seagate Barracuda ES 16MB (SATA 300)
>Network: 1Gbps (Broadcom BCM5708)
>Filesystem: UFS2
>
>Regards,
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