Re: Problems with rsync 2.5.1pre1 and hardlinks

2001-12-12 Thread tim . conway
ECTED] Dave Dykstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problems with rsync 2.5.1pre1 and hardlinks Classification: On 12 Dec 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > An additional hard link to an existing file takes only directory > space, which, if it&

Re: Problems with rsync 2.5.1pre1 and hardlinks

2001-12-12 Thread Martin Pool
On 12 Dec 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > An additional hard link to an existing file takes only directory > space, which, if it's not enough of an addition to that directories > existing data to cause the filesystem driver to add another > allocation to the directories data space, takes up no m

Re: Problems with rsync 2.5.1pre1 and hardlinks

2001-12-12 Thread tim . conway
call me Tim?" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/11/2001 11:42 PM To: Dave Dykstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: Tim Conway/LMT/SC/PHILIPS) Subject:Re: Problems with rsync 2.5.1pre1 and hardlinks

Re: Problems with rsync 2.5.1pre1 and hardlinks

2001-12-12 Thread birger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 08:53:56AM +0100: [...] * * 'Twas long ago when I did swap-on-a-file as shown above by you. Anyway, I * succeeded both in upgrading RAM as well as adding an additional swapfile * and it was confirmed indeed that memory was the problem: the kernel

Re: Problems with rsync 2.5.1pre1 and hardlinks

2001-12-11 Thread birger
Martin Pool schrieb am Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 05:40:19PM +1100: * On 10 Dec 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * > * Running out of memory may be the problem. As a temporary workaround * > * perhaps you can create an additional swap file (rather than partition) * > * on the backup server? * * OK. To

Re: Problems with rsync 2.5.1pre1 and hardlinks

2001-12-11 Thread birger
Dave Dykstra schrieb am Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 02:21:46PM -0600: [...] * > * > * * > * Ideas: * > * 1. Would it be possible to use symlinks instead of hardlinks? That * > * would give you more flexibility to split things up however you * > * like. * > * 2. Perhaps you could break it u

Re: Problems with rsync 2.5.1pre1 and hardlinks

2001-12-10 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 09:18:33PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dave Dykstra schrieb am Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 01:44:26PM -0600: > * > I have to copy a structure of 70 directories where the data of these > * > directories are hardlinked to the data of the 1st directory. Within this > * > "ori

Re: Problems with rsync 2.5.1pre1 and hardlinks

2001-12-10 Thread birger
Dave Dykstra schrieb am Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 01:44:26PM -0600: * > I have to copy a structure of 70 directories where the data of these * > directories are hardlinked to the data of the 1st directory. Within this * > "orig data" directory, I have about 30.000 files, so the amount of files * > to

Re: Problems with rsync 2.5.1pre1 and hardlinks

2001-12-10 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 03:51:29PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > I got stuck within some weird prob concerning my 2-node linux cluster and > the synchronisation tool at hand (rsync-2.5.1pre1). > > I have to copy a structure of 70 directories where the data of these > directories

Re: Problems with rsync 2.5.1pre1 and hardlinks

2001-12-09 Thread Martin Pool
On 10 Dec 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > * Running out of memory may be the problem. As a temporary workaround > * perhaps you can create an additional swap file (rather than partition) > * on the backup server? OK. To help you out until then, you can do something like this # dd if=/dev/ze

Re: Problems with rsync 2.5.1pre1 and hardlinks

2001-12-09 Thread birger
Martin Pool schrieb am Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 08:20:47AM +1100: * Do you see any error messages in the log file on the server? Nope, none - the server thinks it has done all transfers (despite having its childs still clinging to some 200MB mem...) successfully. * * Running out of memory may be th

Re: Problems with rsync 2.5.1pre1 and hardlinks

2001-12-09 Thread Martin Pool
Do you see any error messages in the log file on the server? Running out of memory may be the problem. As a temporary workaround perhaps you can create an additional swap file (rather than partition) on the backup server? The rsync hlink code seems to use a bit more memory than is really necess

Problems with rsync 2.5.1pre1 and hardlinks

2001-12-09 Thread birger
Hi, I got stuck within some weird prob concerning my 2-node linux cluster and the synchronisation tool at hand (rsync-2.5.1pre1). I have to copy a structure of 70 directories where the data of these directories are hardlinked to the data of the 1st directory. Within this "orig data" directory