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Hello, I agree with this but this is just a "not" good design choice of upstream. This is not a real bug. Regards Sylvain Le Gall On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 03:33:36PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > Package: unison > Version: 2.27.57-1+b1 > Severity: normal > > I'm using unison to sync some directories that contain large files. > I rarely change files; mostly they just get added and deleted. (think > video podcasts) > > When one replica is empty and unison is "looking for changes", it > takes a very long time for unison to process each file, there's a lot > of disk activity, and iotop shows unison reading 30MB/s. I think it > must be reading the entire file in to compare it to the one on the > other side. But there isn't anything on the other side! If unison > checked for presence before checking contents, it would be a lot faster > in my use case (it will still have to read some of the files, of course, > but deferring that would mean I could quickly do the interactive step > of setting up the sync, then go off and do something else while it > transfers the files to the device). > > Daniel > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: lenny/sid > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > > Versions of packages unison depends on: > ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries > > Versions of packages unison recommends: > ii openssh-client [ssh-client] 1:5.1p1-2 secure shell client, an > rlogin/rsh > > unison suggests no packages. > > -- no debconf information > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
