On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 11:28:37AM -0600, Edward King wrote: > Might it be possible to take the file list that you want to feed to > rsync and turn it into an rsync.conf file?
It might be possible, but maybe it is ambiguous and definitely not efficient, since --include defines a Pattern, not a file name/path. As far as I know, rsync has to check every single file against all include/exclude patterns. That's a complexity of O(n^2). I'm talking about directories with 30,000 .. 1,000,000 files. This could end up in 10^12 file name/comparison patterns, and that's certainly not what you want to have. If you read a list of plain filenames, you do not need to perfom pattern matching, but can use a simple associative/hash array and check extremely fast, whether a given filename is to be copied or not. That's a very important difference to a list of patterns. regards Hadmut -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
