Re: A --exclude-checksum option?

2013-02-17 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 02/17/2013 01:59:02 PM, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > > > It occurs to me that a handy solution might be to have an rsync > option, > > similar to the --exclude option, which would allow checksumming to > happen > > throughout most of the ackup

Re: A --exclude-checksum option?

2013-02-17 Thread Wayne Davison
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > It occurs to me that a handy solution might be to have an rsync option, > similar to the --exclude option, which would allow checksumming to happen > throughout most of the ackup process but would do "regular" size/timestamp > based backups

Re: Direct I/O support (patches included)

2013-02-17 Thread Dag Wieers
On Sat, 16 Feb 2013, Linda Walsh wrote: I wondered about that as well -- could speed things up by 30% over going through the slow linux buffers. One thing that the 'dd' people found out though was that if you do direct I/O, memory and your I/O really do have to line up -- it may be that only 51

Re: Direct I/O support (patches included)

2013-02-17 Thread Dag Wieers
On Sat, 16 Feb 2013, Linda Walsh wrote: Dag Wieers wrote: On Thu, 14 Feb 2013, Brian K. White wrote: > On 2/14/2013 9:50 AM, Dag Wieers wrote: > > > Since a --direct-io feature was requested a few times the past decade > > with little response and the actual patch is quite trivial, I p