Re: Overly Long File Names

2007-10-03 Thread Wayne Davison
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 10:30:55AM +0100, Stuart Halliday wrote: Cygwin needs to drop support for Windows 98. They plan to do this 'sometime'. I wonder if defining MAXPATHLEN to a larger value would work or not? That value is supposed to represent the largest string that can be passed to a

Re: reducing file list bytes transferred

2007-10-03 Thread Peter Salameh
Thanks for that. Doesn't the delta-transfer algorithm compare the files on sender and receiver? For the file list, we would only need compare the new file list with the last one on the sender (it would be a simple matter to check that the receiver's file list is still valid with a checksum). If

Re: reducing file list bytes transferred

2007-10-03 Thread Peter Salameh
I agree that rsync being stateless is a good thing. I have found it very reliable and predictable for years. I certainly wouldn't change to unison (which apparently is currently not maintained) just to speed up the file list transfer. Delta-transfer of the file list seems to make good sense for

Any ide why it take long time to run from WinXP to Linux?

2007-10-03 Thread Thiep Duong
I am using rsync2.5.1 on winxp, to rsync about 6GB working directory to linux host via ssh. rsync /cygdrive/c/work -arvvze ssh.exe --delete \ odc4linux1.am.necel.com:/home2/duong/PC_Backup This should be an weekly update run, and it took over 2-hrs . work/weekly/2007/

Rsync not able to transfer over jumbo frames?

2007-10-03 Thread Jake Conk
Hello, I have 2 network cards on my 2 of my computers that I am trying to transfer data on. The second network cards are specifically for transferring files between the two so I enabled jumble frames by setting the mtu to 9000. I seem to be able to connect between the two via ssh and other

CVS update: rsync/patches

2007-10-03 Thread Wayne Davison
Date: Thu Oct 4 01:09:34 2007 Author: wayned Update of /data/cvs/rsync/patches In directory dp.samba.org:/tmp/cvs-serv15713/patches Modified Files: ignore-case.diff Log Message: Added a manpage entry and made a few more tweaks. Revisions: ignore-case.diff1.59 =