OT: SCO Drive Performance issue

[D . Thomas Podnar]

On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 04:23:46PM -0400, Doug Luurs wrote:
> Does anyone have any ideas on improving the performance of SCO (5.0.7)
> Disk read speed.   Some of our files are getting a 'might' large over
> time.
> 
> Would back-up'g up the filepro system, deleting it, and then restoring
> it
> tend to improve it's read access (Defragmenting it) help it any ?
> 
> 
> Douglas Luurs
>   Systems Programmer
>   Borisch Mfg Corp
> 
> Voice: 616-554-9820 x143
> Fax: 616-554-9180

Hi Douglas.

Backing up and then restoring by itself will probably use a lot of
the same fragmented blocks, and your performance may not change.

Backing up a filesystem, unmounting it, re-creating it (as in divvy),
then remounting it and retoring your files will breing them back
contiguously, resulting in improved performance for a while.

If you data is on the root filesystem, you can do that with a backup
and disaster recovery.

Using OpenServer 6 or even Linux would result in much faster performance
on identical hardware.

-- 
Tom
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