> I believe that the compression option turns on compression of transfered > data, including file lists, instruction streams etc. Even with compression > turned off, the miss data in the delta is still compressed.
nope! Compression only compresses file data, not file lists etc. The file lists are 'packed' with a simple fixed algorithm (finding common filename prefixes for example). It would have been better to just use deflate for the lot, but unfortunately I didn't do that. If you don't use -z then deflate is not used at all, and neither is the 'compression of unsent data' trick. Cheers, Tridge -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
