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Inodes (number of request) for S3 backup

VKB-1103Reference
📦 Applies to
Xen Orchestra
🗓️ Created
2024-03-14
🔄 Updated
2024-03-14

For the inodes:

  • Backup blocks are 2 MB uncompressed, so 1 inode per block.
  • One folder for each 1000 blocks, even if only one is used, so 1 inode per folder.
  • VHD metadata is just some MB per disk, negligible.
  • Backup metadata is also some MB per backup job, negligible.

With compression we are around 1 MB per block, so 1 million blocks per TB, which means about 1 million inodes per TB.