It will do deltas if you change the same file, but not if you have a mostly-similar file.
-----Original Message----- From: Venky Shankar <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, 18 July 2012 2:05 PM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] georeplication on huge files >On 07/18/2012 03:14 AM, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: >> how does gluster perform on huge file georeplication like a VM disk >> based image? >> >> Let's assume a 150GB image on a single file. Does it replicate the whole >> file every time, like rsync, or only differences will be replicated? > >AFAIK, Rsync does not blindly sync whole file. It uses rolling checksum >algorithm to decide which blocks to sync. > >Geo replication relies on Rsync to sync file contents after it has >identified that need synchronization. > >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gluster-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >> > > >Thanks, >--Venky > >_______________________________________________ >Gluster-users mailing list >[email protected] >http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list [email protected] http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
