Sincere thanks to everyone for their replies. Before following some of
the advice offered I decided to investigate the machine filesystem
further.
I'm no linux expert (obviously :)) but found that of the ext3
filesystems on each disk, the dir_index feature was only enabled on
the primary disk.
From an old old old-timer
The first disks that IBM came out with were effectively the same
speed as card readers and line printers. For unblocked records.
Disks are NOT asynchronous. They spin at a very predictable
Rate and timing are extremely different based on whether the
Head is in the right
On 7/16/07, W Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Back in June I posted about the trouble I've been having backing up
some local directories and I'm no further ahead than back then.
Link for that discussion:
http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2007-June/017882.html
In summary: I'm copying nearly a
On 7/16/07, W Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Back in June I posted about the trouble I've been having backing up
some local directories and I'm no further ahead than back then.
Link for that discussion:
http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2007-June/017882.html
In summary: I'm copying nearly a
On 7/16/07, Aaron W Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The difference could be --whole-file which is enabled by default when
the source and destination are local disks. You could try to disable
that with --no-whole-file .
--no-whole-file reduces data transfer between the sending and
receiving
