[CentOS] raid resync speed? - laptop drive-

Fri May 21 22:46:40 UTC 2010
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

Les Mikesell wrote:
> These is a backuppc archive with millions of hardlinks that will take 
> forever to copy if I have to do a file-oriented copy onto a different 
> partition size.
>   

have you tried a dump | restore style Ext{3|2}FS replica?   that works 
by inode and does it pretty efficiently.  catch22, the source shouldn't 
be mounted.