Re: Need hint for my question regarding the working of rsync.

2013-11-13 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, in the case of using v3 with --link-dest and not --checksum most of the initial activity on the sender would be doing calls to stat() to index what is there. The receiving side would be doing 2x the stat() calls (you have 2 - --link-dest dirs for

Re: Need hint for my question regarding the working of rsync.

2013-11-13 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 11/13/2013 12:03:21 PM, Kevin Korb wrote: OK, in the case of using v3 with --link-dest and not --checksum most of the initial activity on the sender would be doing calls to stat() to index what is there. The receiving side would be doing 2x the stat() calls (you have 2 --link-dest dirs

Re: Need hint for my question regarding the working of rsync.

2013-11-13 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 To an extent it is serially. The sender tells the receiver what it needs to stat(). However, thanks to incremental indexing it will parallelize but the receiver will not go beyond what the receiver has sent. Read the --recursive section of the man

Re: Need hint for my question regarding the working of rsync.

2013-11-13 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there a hard links limit? I have been in the 70-80 million range on ext4 without a problem (other than performance which is why I switched to ZFS for that use case). On 11/13/13 13:59, Karl O. Pinc wrote: On 11/13/2013 12:03:21 PM, Kevin Korb

Re: Need hint for my question regarding the working of rsync.

2013-11-13 Thread Karl O. Pinc
necessarily 11/13/2013 01:04:29 PM, Kevin Korb wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there a hard links limit? I have been in the 70-80 million range on ext4 without a problem (other than performance which is why I switched to ZFS for that use case). It's a per-file

Re: Need hint for my question regarding the working of rsync.

2013-11-13 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I wasn't saying I had millions of links of the same file. It was hundreds of link-dest backups some of which contained a few but not all that many links. I wasn't doing a link-dest backup of something link heavy. On 11/13/13 15:01, Karl O. Pinc