I was looking at the performance of using rsync to copy some large files
which change only a little between each run (database files). I take a
snapshot after every successful run of rsync, so when using rsync
--inplace, only changed portions of the file will occupy new disk space.
On Jan 24, 2010, at 10:26, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:
But it occured to me that this is a special case which could be
beneficial in many cases -- if the filesystem uses secure checksums,
it
could check the existing block pointer and see if the replaced data
matches. [...]
Are there any
David Magda dma...@ee.ryerson.ca writes:
On Jan 24, 2010, at 10:26, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:
But it occured to me that this is a special case which could be
beneficial in many cases -- if the filesystem uses secure checksums,
it could check the existing block pointer and see if the
