Re: mirroring is very slow with large directories.

[Michael Petuschak]

Hi Tony,  

 > I need to mirror a directory that has 2500+ files that match a set of
 > patterns.  The actual directory size is much larger.  I have no control
 > over this.  A single mirror command sends 2500+ MDTM commands for each
 > file before starting any file transfers.  Even if they did split up the
 > directory it would still execute the same number of MDTM commands.

man lftp

       ftp:use-mdtm (boolean)
              when true (default), lftp uses MDTM command  to  determine
                file modification time.

-- 
Michael