Re: rsync --link-dest and --files-from lead by a change list from some file system audit tool (Was: Re: cut-off time for rsync ?)

2015-07-14 Thread Paul Slootman
On Mon 13 Jul 2015, Andrew Gideon wrote: On the other hand, I do confess that I am sometimes miffed at the waste involved in a small change to a very large file. Rsync is smart about moving minimal data, but it still stores an entire new copy of the file. What's needed is a file system

Re: rsync --link-dest and --files-from lead by a change list from some file system audit tool (Was: Re: cut-off time for rsync ?)

2015-07-14 Thread Ken Chase
And what's performance like? I've heard lots of COW systems performance drops through the floor when there's many snapshots. /kc On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 08:59:25AM +0200, Paul Slootman said: On Mon 13 Jul 2015, Andrew Gideon wrote: On the other hand, I do confess that I am sometimes

Re: rsync --link-dest and --files-from lead by a change list from some file system audit tool (Was: Re: cut-off time for rsync ?)

2015-07-14 Thread Simon Hobson
Ken Chase rsync-list-m...@sizone.org wrote: And what's performance like? I've heard lots of COW systems performance drops through the floor when there's many snapshots. For BTRFS I'd suspect the performance penalty to be fairly small. Snapshots can be done in different ways, and the way BTRFS

Re: C coding tips please / Localisation

2015-07-14 Thread Michael
Wayne Davison wayned at samba.org writes: The best place to add that include and the gettext define would be to put them in rsync.h somewhere, which would make the localisation idiom available in all the .c files. Putting it down at the bottom of the file would be a reasonable spot for it. Hi

File list size/Number of regular files transferred?

2015-07-14 Thread Michael
Hi All, What does the value for File list size represent? Is it the number of files or the number of bytes? For one of my tests the following output was produced. Number of regular files transferred: 1 File list size: 0 Is there supposed to be any direct correlation between these 2 statistics?

Re: restrictions on module names

2015-07-14 Thread Selva Nair
On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 1:44 PM, Wayne Davison way...@samba.org wrote: On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 1:16 PM Selva Nair selva.n...@gmail.com wrote: I had named a module as global and it appears not to be recognized. [...] Any pointers as to what names are allowed for modules will be appreciated.