Marian Marinov wrote... > I've been using rsync on some backup servers for years. In 2011 we > had a situation where the FS of the backup server was behaving > strange, even thou there was enough available I/O, the fs(ext4 on > 16TB partition with a lot of inodes) was lagging. After much testing > we found that rsync was hammering the fs too hard.
I'd like to learn more about that scenario. Mostly, I'm curious whether these file transfers involved creation of a *lot* and probably rather small files. Christoph -- 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