[OpenIndiana-discuss] rsync problems: out of memory

2011-07-15 Thread Frank Van Damme
I have a problem when rsyncing a directory with a *lot* of files in it to an openindiana system (it's an 151-dev installation). It failed when I issued the command on the sender side (linux box), this is the error when you try the command on the receiver side: ERROR: out of memory in flist_expand

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] rsync problems: out of memory

2011-07-15 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
I've seen that happen to other people too. If your directory is really "flat" (millions of files in one directory, no subdirectories), you're out of luck unless you rearrange it. If your directory is not flat, then break up the job into multiple rsyncs that don't overlap. As I recall, their s

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] rsync problems: out of memory

2011-07-15 Thread Frank Van Damme
2011/7/15 Richard L. Hamilton : > I've seen that happen to other people too. > > If your directory is really "flat" (millions of files in one directory, no > subdirectories), you're out of luck unless you rearrange it.  If your > directory is not flat, then break up the job into multiple rsyncs t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] rsync problems: out of memory

2011-07-15 Thread Frank Van Damme
2011/7/15 Frank Van Damme : > It's not too flat. Actually I managed to rsync the same dataset to > Nexenta (well, I also had a failure, but later in the copy and not > consistant) which has an rsync version 3.0.7 while OI has 3.0.6 - I > now compiled 3.0.8 on OI so we'll see if 2 minor versions wil

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hardware fault, drive or controller?

2011-07-15 Thread Matt Connolly
Hi all, following my crash and boot failure during the week, I left my oi machine off for a day or so to think about what it had done wrong. After turning it back on and booting off the live oi-148 cd, I was able to import my 2 pools, and did a scrub of the boot pool. There were a few checksum err

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hardware fault, drive or controller?

2011-07-15 Thread Mark
On 16/07/2011 9:18 a.m., Matt Connolly wrote: Hi all, following my crash and boot failure during the week, I left my oi machine off for a day or so to think about what it had done wrong. After turning it back on and booting off the live oi-148 cd, I was able to import my 2 pools, and did a scrub

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] rsync problems: out of memory

2011-07-15 Thread Gregory Youngblood
On Jul 15, 2011, at 1:12 PM, Frank Van Damme wrote: > 2011/7/15 Frank Van Damme : >> It's not too flat. Actually I managed to rsync the same dataset to >> Nexenta (well, I also had a failure, but later in the copy and not >> consistant) which has an rsync version 3.0.7 while OI has 3.0.6 - I >> no