Re: [Clonezilla-live] Partclone vs Partimage
A partition and disk imaging/cloning program
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From: Steven S. <st...@nc...> - 2010-10-08 06:57:31
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Hi Lukas, The partclone 0.2.16 has an option now: -q, --quiet Disable progress message Steven. On 2010年10月04日 19:56, Lukas Grässlin wrote: > Any news about that? > > On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 11:10:49AM +0800, Steven Shiau wrote: > >> Lukas, >> Thanks. Thomas Tsai will revise this and try to use them. >> In the future, we will have more options in partclone to disable >> some jobs, e.g. "-q, --quiet" to skip all the rate messages update. >> Thanks. >> >> Steven. >> >> Lukas Grässlin wrote: >> >>> On 14.04.2010 23:16, Steven Shiau wrote: >>> >>>> Lukas Grässlin wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 14.04.2010 16:15, Steven Shiau wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Lukas Grässlin wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>> There is an option "-f" of partclone which you might be interested to >>>>>>>> give it try. >>>>>>>> You can tune it to see if any difference. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> As I understood the code, -f only affects the time the gui itself would >>>>>>> be refreshed, but the update_pui method which also runs calculate_speed >>>>>>> anyway is run. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks. I will check with Thomas, >>>>>> >>>>> No problem. >>>>> >>>>> You can see it e.g. here in restore.c : >>>>> >>>>> /// start restore image file to partition >>>>> for( block_id = 0; block_id< image_hdr.totalblock; block_id++ ){ >>>>> /* doing things, copying the blocks */ >>>>> update_pui(&prog, copied, done); >>>>> } // end of for >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I did a patch for myself within I told it just call update_pui once for >>>>> 5000 blocks. Don't know if its a good idea, but it worked ;) >>>>> >>>> Good, and the performance is? >>>> Could you please also send us the patch file? >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>> I got about 20-39 MB/s. >>> Here is the patch. There are some other changes within: >>> >>> * I completeley disabled the update_pui on the server side, because >>> clonezilla anyway doesn't show the output there. >>> >>> * I changed the display of the speed from */min to */s beaucse I thoght >>> it's better readable for the most people. >>> >>> * I implemented that crc32-checks can be disabled. Not an good idea, but >>> I wanted it for testing and its disabled by default. >>> >>> Sorry, I had no time to rip off these other changes but it should be ok >>> anyway I hope. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Lukas >>> >>> >>>> Steven. >>>> >>>>>>> If I've time I'll try the older clonezilla live, too. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> BTW, maybe you can also give Clonezilla live 1.2.2-14 a try? It's >>>>>>>> partclone is older, and we might have a regression somewhere... >>>>>>>> Please let us know the results. >>>>>>>> Thanks. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Regards, >>>>>>>> Steven. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> On 14.04.2010 10:33, Steven Shiau wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Yes, Thomas Tsai is working on the improvement of partclone. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Lukas, >>>>>>>>>> Please send us gprof results you have. >>>>>>>>>> Thanks. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Steven. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> On 2010/4/14 下午 02:43, Lukas Grässlin wrote: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Regarding the perfmance of partclone: Look at the "on-the-fly >>>>>>>>>>> performance" Thread in this mailing list. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Partclone does some odd things which slow down the speed. You can >>>>>>>>>>> improve this by saying not to use the gui. (I think this is in the >>>>>>>>>>> expert options). But it stills does stupid things, like >>>>>>>>>>> calculating the >>>>>>>>>>> speed too often which resultes in high cpu load. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Regards, >>>>>>>>>>> Lukas >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> On 14.04.2010 06:39, Jorge Fábregas wrote: >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> Hello Steven, >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> I've been using Clonezilla happily for more than 2 years and I >>>>>>>>>>>> always used the >>>>>>>>>>>> custom options and specifically partimage as the cloning tool. >>>>>>>>>>>> Since partimage >>>>>>>>>>>> seems to be a dead project (and no support for ext4) and >>>>>>>>>>>> considering that >>>>>>>>>>>> Clonezilla uses partclone as the default option I decided to use >>>>>>>>>>>> this. >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> My observation was that partclone takes some more time. When it >>>>>>>>>>>> started >>>>>>>>>>>> saving the partition, I wasn't sure what it was doing. There was >>>>>>>>>>>> some >>>>>>>>>>>> progress indicator (percentage) (Generating bitmap..) and I after >>>>>>>>>>>> that it >>>>>>>>>>>> started again another progress indicator (I guess the actual >>>>>>>>>>>> creation of the >>>>>>>>>>>> image). I'm a bit confused about these 2 steps as soon as >>>>>>>>>>>> partclone starts. >>>>>>>>>>>> Any tip will be appreciated. (just curious). >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks for Clonezillla. >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> Best regards, >>>>>>>>>>>> Jorge >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval >>>>>>>>>>>> Try the new software tools for yourself. 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