On Fri, 2006-12-05 at 22:21 +0200, Flavio Visentin wrote: > OT for qemu, but if you use *rsync*, then only the changed part of the > file are copied, not all the file. Rsync was written just for this > reason, to avoid copying unneccessary unchanged data.
But as soon as the modification stamp changes rsync still needs to scan the entire 20GB file to determine what part has changed. With two separate drives on a local system this takes exactly as long as just copying the entire file. Cheers _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel