On 20 Feb 2003, Donovan Baarda abo-at-minkirri.apana.org.au |Rsync List| wrote:
> RSYNC DOES NOT WORK WITH 1GB+ FILES... unless you have a sufficiently > large block size. See the following; > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg05219.html > > This probably needs to be documented somewhere newbie's can find it. I'd suggest putting in a warning if rsync detects a large file (500M? 1000M?) in its file list. This should be simple to code and will serve to let people know that rsync's usually excellent transfer rates might be suffering a bit because it had to re-checksum the file. I'd also suggest making the "I had to retransmit the file" message visible with just "-v", rather than "-vv". If you all think it's a good idea, but don't want to actually code it, let me know and I'll build a patch. -- Steve -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
