On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 12:10:51PM +0200, Judith Retief wrote: > I'm going to have three copies of real-file, rather than one copy and > two hard links, isn't it?
Yes, rsync can only hard-link together the files that are in a single transfer. What version of rsync are you running? Hard-linking got a lot more efficient in modern versions (it got a lot better in 2.6.1, and there were some minor improvements since then). > When I do an strace on rsync on the client, it's almost invariably > busy with lstat'ing the local drive. I guess this is the receiver > building up its file list? If the client is the receiver, then it is either doing its --delete pass, or checking if files are up-to-date or not. You'll save some disk I/O by switching from --delete to --delete-during (so that a directory gets checked for sending and deleting at about the same time). ..wayne.. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
