On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 12:08:56PM -0400, Michael Galea via talk wrote: > PS: A few years ago I noticed an interesting behaviour in Linux. When > rsyncing hundreds of GB from the eSata to the USB mounted drive I found the > file system to become unreliable and unmountable. A workaround that I now > follow is to add an "--bwlimit=15000" in the rsync command, which ensures > that the eSata doesn't get too far ahead of the USB drive. May be completely > unnecessary now..
That's because USB gets disconnected and reconnected. So, /dev/sdc becomes /dev/sdd in the middle of copying. -- William --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
