On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 12:38:32 +1300 Henri Shustak <henri.shus...@gmail.com> wrote:
> As Ben mentioned, ZFS snapshots is one possible approach. Another > approach is to have a faster storage system. I have seen considerable > speed improvements with rsync on similar data sets by say upgrading > the storage sub system. Another possibility could be to use lvm and lvmcache to throw a ssd in front of the spinning disks. This would only improve things if you didn't otherwise fill up the cache with data -- you want the cache to contain inodes. So this might work only if your ssd cache was larger than whatever amount of data you typically write between rsync runs, plus enough to hold all the inodes in your rsync-ed fs. I've not tried this. I'm not even certain it's a good idea. It's just a thought. Regards, Karl <k...@meme.com> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html