Justin T Pryzby wrote:
Note that --whole-file "is the default when both the source and destination are specified as local paths", and implies that the file is copied without the "delta transfer" algorithm.
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I am using the 'whole-file' copy, 'explicitly', as I didn't know that was the default in a local->local file copy. If that algorithm was intended for local-local copy, how does it use breaking up a file into blocks and summing them help file transfer, over, say, spewing the entire file in 1 write over a pipe like say cat a | cat >b would ? Alternatively, if it 'knows' it is local-local and it is copying the whole file, how does the block-summing copying of the data through a pipe to another process providing benefits, over say, simply writing the buffer, directly back out to the new file location, like a 'cp' command conceptually, might do? -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
