Kevin Korb <kmk <at> sanitarium.net> writes: > A lot of this has to do with the filesystems and operating systems involved. > > Since you didn't specify I will guess Linux with ext3. If that is the > case run don't walk to ext4. Also, mount the filesystems with the > noatime and nodiratime options. This will prevent every stat() call > from also writing to the filesystem which can be a huge performance benefit.
Note: noatime includes nodiratime, i.e. there's no need to include both. E.g. see http://lwn.net/Articles/245002/ -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
