Jamie Lokier wrote: >Hmm. My home directory, on my laptop (a mere 60GB disk), does contain >millions of files, and it takes about 20 minutes to build the list on >a good day. 100Mbps network, but it's I/O bound not network bound. > >It looks a lot like the number of files is more significant than the >amount of data at this scale. > > In fact, I know of at least one place where they don't use rsync because they don't have enough RAM+SWAP to hold the list of files in memory.
As far as future directions for rsync, I think this is the major place where rsync needs to become better. Shachar -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html