On Fri 28 Oct 2005, Anban Mestry wrote: > Amazing. Connecting to the NFS server directly instead of through a > mount results in much better transfers. Thank you. It looks like just > the updated portions of the files are zoomed across.
That is the case... > A dumb question, but why? Does the rsync daemon on the server side > have anything to do with this? Or does the NFS client act as if the Of course; the rsync daemon isn't just a passive data mover. It reads blocks and uses checksums to determine what parts are different. > mount is a "local" directory and tries to do read and writes just as > it would on disk? As far as rsync is concerned (and most of all the other utilities you have at your disposal on a Unix / linux system) an NFS-mounted filesystem _is_ local, after all it's just a part of the filesystem space. That's the point of NFS mounts, isn't it? Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
