guy keren wrote:
as well as sys admins/kernel developers - the initrd file on (some?)
linux distributions is a gziped cpio file (at least on RHEL 5.X)
Initrd can come in one of two formats. These are either some (any)
file system (you usually use some read only file system, most common of
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.ilwrote:
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010, Tom Rosenfeld wrote about Re: faster rsync of huge
directories:
I realized that in my case I did not really need rsync since it is a
local
disk to disk copy. I could have used a tar and pipe
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010, Tom Rosenfeld wrote about Re: faster rsync of huge
directories:
By the way, while cpio -p is indeed a good historic tool, nowadays there
is little reason to use it, because GNU's cp make it easier to do almost
everything that cpio -p did: The -a option to cp
Nadav Har'El wrote:
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010, Tom Rosenfeld wrote about Re: faster rsync of huge
directories:
By the way, while cpio -p is indeed a good historic tool, nowadays there
is little reason to use it, because GNU's cp make it easier to do almost
everything that cpio -p did: The -a option
2010/4/12 Tom Rosenfeld tro...@bezeqint.net
Hi,
I am a great fan of rsync for copying filesystems. However I now have a
filesystem which is several hundred gigabytes and apparently has a lot of
small files. I have been running rsync all night and it still did not start
copying as it is
Tom Rosenfeld wrote:
Hi,
I am a great fan of rsync for copying filesystems. However I now have
a filesystem which is several hundred gigabytes and apparently has a
lot of small files. I have been running rsync all night and it still
did not start copying as it is still building the file
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010, Shachar Shemesh wrote about Re: faster rsync of huge
directories:
Upgrade both ends to rsync version 3 or later. That version starts the
transfer even before the file list is completely built.
Maybe I'm missing something, but how does this help?
It may find the first
Nadav Har'El wrote:
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010, Shachar Shemesh wrote about Re: faster rsync of huge
directories:
Upgrade both ends to rsync version 3 or later. That version starts the
transfer even before the file list is completely built.
Maybe I'm missing something, but how does
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Tom Rosenfeld tro...@bezeqint.net wrote:
Hi,
I am a great fan of rsync for copying filesystems. However I now have a
filesystem which is several hundred gigabytes and apparently has a lot of
small files. I have been running rsync all night and it still did
Tom Rosenfeld wrote:
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Tom Rosenfeld tro...@bezeqint.net
mailto:tro...@bezeqint.net wrote:
Hi,
I am a great fan of rsync for copying filesystems. However I now
have a filesystem which is several hundred gigabytes and
apparently has a lot of
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010, Tom Rosenfeld wrote about Re: faster rsync of huge
directories:
I realized that in my case I did not really need rsync since it is a local
disk to disk copy. I could have used a tar and pipe, but I like cpio:
Is this quicker?
If it is, then the reason of rsync's extreme
By default cpio also will not overwrite files if the source is not newer.
Consider cp -ur
rsync also can --delete extraneous files from dest dirs
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From: linux-il-boun...@cs.huji.ac.il [mailto:linux-il-boun...@cs.huji.ac.il]
On Behalf Of Tom Rosenfeld
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 9:41 AM
To: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il
Subject: faster rsync of huge directories
Hi,
I am a great fan of rsync for copying filesystems.
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Vitaly li...@karasik.org wrote:
2010/4/12 Tom Rosenfeld tro...@bezeqint.net
Hi,
I am a great fan of rsync for copying filesystems. However I now have a
filesystem which is several hundred gigabytes and apparently has a lot of
small files. I have been
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