On Thu 14 Feb 2019, Delian Krustev via rsync wrote: > On Wednesday, February 13, 2019 6:25:59 PM EET Remi Gauvin > <r...@georgianit.com> wrote: > > If the --inplace delta is as large as the filesize, then the > > structure/location of the data has changed enough that the whole file > > would have to be written out in any case. > > This is not the case. > If you see my original post you would have noticed that the delta transfer > finds only about 20 MB of differences within the almost 2G datafile.
I think you're missing the point of Remi's message. Say the original file is: ABCDEFGHIJ The new file is: XABCDEFGHI Then the delta is just 10%, but the entire file needs to be rewritten as the structure is changed. Paul -- 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
