Re: rsync vs. rcp

2003-02-19 Thread James Knowles
when dealing with 1GB+ files, rsync is 4-5 _times_ slower than rcp. What OS? I'm downloading cygwin (slow) to see if I can compile a Windows rsync that doesn't show this nasty behaviour. I just did a test on about 3.5GB total, Linux - Linux. I got 11 minutes vs. 9 minutes on , which for bulk

Re: rsync vs. rcp

2003-02-19 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 05:55, va_public wrote: I got used to rsync's -v --progress option so much that I used it instead of rcp even to simply copy files across the network. I dont like software that doesnt talk to me! :-) I like the percentage bar that --progress gives! To my surprise,

Re: rsync vs. rcp

2003-02-19 Thread va_public [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Donovan Baarda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 05:55, va_public wrote: RSYNC DOES NOT WORK WITH 1GB+ FILES... unless you have a sufficiently large block size. See the following; http://www.mail-archive.com/rsync@l.../msg05219.html OK. I read the

Re: rsync vs. rcp

2003-02-19 Thread James Knowles
RSYNC DOES NOT WORK WITH 1GB+ FILES... unless you have a sufficiently large block size. According to the archives, block size doesn't fix anything. At any rate, I'm highly disappointed that rsync is relying on statistical good fortune. We've used rsync extensively in our company for moving

Re: rsync vs. rcp

2003-02-19 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 09:53:05PM -, va_public [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Donovan Baarda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 05:55, va_public wrote: RSYNC DOES NOT WORK WITH 1GB+ FILES... unless you have a sufficiently large block size. See the

Re: rsync vs. rcp

2003-02-19 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 08:55, James Knowles wrote: RSYNC DOES NOT WORK WITH 1GB+ FILES... unless you have a sufficiently large block size. According to the archives, block size doesn't fix anything. At any rate, I'm highly disappointed that rsync is relying on statistical good fortune.

Re: rsync vs. rcp

2003-02-19 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 08:53, va_public wrote: --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Donovan Baarda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 05:55, va_public wrote: RSYNC DOES NOT WORK WITH 1GB+ FILES... unless you have a sufficiently large block size. See the following;

Re: rsync vs. rcp

2003-02-19 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 11:36, Craig Barratt wrote: RSYNC DOES NOT WORK WITH 1GB+ FILES... unless you have a sufficiently large block size. See the following; http://www.mail-archive.com/rsync@lists.samba.org/msg05219.html Let's be careful here. Rsync *does* work on 1GB+ files. What

Re: rsync vs. rcp

2003-02-19 Thread jw schultz
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:03:16PM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote: On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 11:36, Craig Barratt wrote: RSYNC DOES NOT WORK WITH 1GB+ FILES... unless you have a sufficiently large block size. See the following; http://www.mail-archive.com/rsync@lists.samba.org/msg05219.html

Re: rsync vs. rcp

2003-02-19 Thread Craig Barratt
I wasn't aware that it had this. Was it there at the time of the original discussion (Oct 2002)? The people involved in the discussion then didn't seem to know this. I wasn't aware of it in Oct 2002 during that discussion. I saw it in the code a month or two after that. I haven't checked the

Re: rsync vs. rcp

2003-02-19 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 13:20, jw schultz wrote: On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:03:16PM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote: On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 11:36, Craig Barratt wrote: RSYNC DOES NOT WORK WITH 1GB+ FILES... unless you have a sufficiently large block size. See the following; [...] However,

Re: rsync vs. rcp

2003-02-19 Thread Steve Bonds
On 20 Feb 2003, Donovan Baarda abo-at-minkirri.apana.org.au |Rsync List| wrote: RSYNC DOES NOT WORK WITH 1GB+ FILES... unless you have a sufficiently large block size. See the following; http://www.mail-archive.com/rsync@lists.samba.org/msg05219.html This probably needs to be documented