Re: [Dump-users] slowwwwwww

[Kenneth P. <sh...@se...>]

--On Wednesday, January 02, 2008 3:43 PM -0800 Todd and Margo Chester 
<Tod...@ve...> wrote:

> Yippee!  I am not crazy.  Found this bug and a sister bug over in
> kernel.org.
>
> Dump of ext3 runs very slowly:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8636
>
> Unusable system (ie slow) when copying large files:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7372

Nice work. So it looks like one could work around the slowness by 
temporarily changing the I/O scheduler for the duration of the dump with a 
/proc setting?