Phil Howard wrote... > I have some very large directories I'd like to syncronize. Total time to > scan through these millions of files is a substantial portion of an hour > or even exceeds it. It just goes slower if these large critical time blocks > have to be done sequentially.
Yeah, same here. > It would also be nice if rsync didn't have to collect the entire tree in > RAM all at once, but instead, both source and destination could recurse > their respective trees in sync with each other and copy, create, delete, > as things go through that parallel recursion. I'm not sure, perhaps hard link preservation would cause some headache here. But as long as you're not using -H at all, there shouldn't be a principal problem. Christoph -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html