Re: Should -W be the default when doing a local rsync copy?

[Dave Dykstra]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 11:01:00AM -0600, Dave Dykstra wrote:
> I just did a measurement on a
> copy between two nfs-mounted ~5MB files with and without -W and found it
> took over 3 times longer without the -W.

I forgot to mention that the two files were nearly identical accept for
a little bit tacked on the end (it was a backup of a growing mailbox file).

- Dave Dykstra