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Ext[34]'s dirindex feature does help but only in that it allows rsync
and any other program to read a large directory faster.
On 10/18/11 13:41, Eric Shubert wrote:
> On 10/14/2011 02:13 AM, Frank Steiner wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> we do a 1:1 backup from our main raid to a backup raid every night with
>>
>> rsync -a --delete /mnt/raid1/ /mnt/raid2
>>
>> rsync is 3.09, filesystems are ext3, OS is SLES 11 SP1.
>>
>> The rsync process takes several hours, even if no file has changed at
>> all.
>> Using -vv I see that rsync compares all files every time and that takes
>> long for some hundreds of millions of small files.
>>
>> Can I tell rsync it should not compare files in a directory if the
>> directory has not changed, i.e., ctime is the same in source and target?
>>
>> I.e., when I have a dir x with a subdir y and a file y1 in it, I see:
>>
>> rsync -avv x z
>> created directory z
>> delta-transmission disabled for local transfer or --whole-file
>> x/
>> x/y/
>> x/y/y1
>>
>> on the first run and
>>
>> rsync -avv x z
>> x/y/y1 is uptodate
>>
>> on every following run. Why does rsync compare y1 again?
>>
>> I couldn't find a solution in the mailing list or FAQ and when googling.
>> I found a mail in this list telling that -a was the culprit and one
>> should add -O to fix it, but it doesn't make any difference.
>>
>> cu,
>> Frank
>>
>
> Perhaps using the ext3 dirindex option would help?
>
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