proposal to speed rsync with lots of files

2009-03-05 Thread Peter Salameh
rsync developers if this feasible with the current implementation and if they think it would help. Thanks, Peter Salameh -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting

Re: proposal to speed rsync with lots of files

2009-03-05 Thread Peter Salameh
Kyle Lanclos wrote: Peter Salameh wrote: One of the speed-limiting issues with rsync is having to send huge file lists when mirroring large file systems, even for incremental updates where only a small part of the file system might have changed. Personally, I find that the sending

Re: reducing file list bytes transferred

2007-10-03 Thread Peter Salameh
is to store the rsync command used to generate the list along with the saved list, to check that the list is still valid. I'm sure there are many rsync users out there who would benefit from this. Still rsync is greatly appreciated. Peter On 10/1/07, Peter Salameh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has

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

reducing file list bytes transferred

2007-10-01 Thread Peter Salameh
. Might be a good addition to rsync-3.0. Thanks in advance. Peter Salameh [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html