On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 11:01:00AM -0600, Dave Dykstra wrote:
I just did a measurement on a
copy between two nfs-mounted ~5MB files with and without -W and found it
took over 3 times longer without the -W.
I forgot to mention that the two files were nearly identical accept for
a little bit
I've found that the -W option is generally faster even over a network
- in my case, the network is a LAN, 100Mb/s full duplex, and not heavily
loaded at 4am. Computers at either end are 533MHz Alphas so the
rsync checksumming is fast, but regardless the -W options seem to speed
things up.
On
