Re: An idea: rsyncfs, an rsync-based real-time replicated filesystem

2005-04-12 Thread Craig Barratt
Interesting ideas. > I envision the "VFS Change Logger" as a (hopefully very thin) middle-ware > that sits between the kernel's VFS interfaces and a real filesystem, like > ext3, reiser, etc. The "VFS Change Logger" will pass VFS calls to the > underlying filesystem driver, but it will make note

Re: An idea: rsyncfs, an rsync-based real-time replicated filesystem

2005-04-12 Thread Clint Byrum
Lester Hightower wrote: I envision the "VFS Change Logger" as a (hopefully very thin) middle-ware that sits between the kernel's VFS interfaces and a real filesystem, like ext3, reiser, etc. The "VFS Change Logger" will pass VFS calls to the underlying filesystem driver, but it will make note of c

An idea: rsyncfs, an rsync-based real-time replicated filesystem

2005-04-12 Thread Lester Hightower
This is only my second email to the rsync mailing list. My first was sent under the title "Re: TODO hardlink performance optimizations" on Jan 3, 2004. The response of the rsync developers to that email was remarkable (in my opinion). I felt that the rsync performance enhancements that resulted

Re: Max filesize for rsync?

2005-04-12 Thread Jeff Schoby
I did what steve suggested here, on both machines. I didn't use any arguments for configure... just did ./configure rsync -Caupvvvz server::myfiles /usr/mydir Here's what happens when it gets to the one file that it says is too big: pathto/myfile recv mapped pathto/myfile of size 1073741312 rsy

Re: Max filesize for rsync?

2005-04-12 Thread Steve Bonds
On Apr 12, 2005 10:04 AM, Jeff Schoby wrote: > How do I build rsync for large file support..I'm going to need > 4GB > files thru rsync. > > It basically stops with an error message of "File too large"...I can > re-run rsync later with the -vvv flag and post the results tomorrow. It sounds like yo

Re: Max filesize for rsync?

2005-04-12 Thread Jeff Schoby
How do I build rsync for large file support..I'm going to need > 4GB files thru rsync. It basically stops with an error message of "File too large"...I can re-run rsync later with the -vvv flag and post the results tomorrow. >>> Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/12/05 11:36 AM >>> On Tue 12

Re: Max filesize for rsync?

2005-04-12 Thread Wayne Davison
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 12:46:55PM -0400, Christophe Kalt wrote: > FWIW, I just upgraded to 2.6.4, and that has solved a problem > i'd been having for a few weeks where 2.6.3 repeatedly failed > to synchronize a 5GB file. Don't remember seeing anything in > the NEWS or other making me think upgrad

Re: Max filesize for rsync?

2005-04-12 Thread Paul Slootman
On Tue 12 Apr 2005, Christophe Kalt wrote: > > FWIW, I just upgraded to 2.6.4, and that has solved a problem > i'd been having for a few weeks where 2.6.3 repeatedly failed > to synchronize a 5GB file. Don't remember seeing anything in > the NEWS or other making me think upgrading would help, but

Re: Max filesize for rsync?

2005-04-12 Thread Christophe Kalt
On Apr 12, Jeff Schoby wrote: | What the maximum filesize rsync can transfer? Depends on whether you have LFS (large file support) enabled (at compile time). | I'm trying to rsync one of my servers to another but the rsync is | croaking on a file that's barely 1GB. That should be no problem.

Re: Max filesize for rsync?

2005-04-12 Thread Paul Slootman
On Tue 12 Apr 2005, Jeff Schoby wrote: > What the maximum filesize rsync can transfer? 2GB (4GB?) should always be possible, when built with the appropriate options for large file support >4GB files are no problem. > I'm trying to rsync one of my servers to another but the rsync is > croaking on

Max filesize for rsync?

2005-04-12 Thread Jeff Schoby
What the maximum filesize rsync can transfer? I'm trying to rsync one of my servers to another but the rsync is croaking on a file that's barely 1GB. Tips, hints, suggestions? rsync server is AIX 4.3.3 ML11 - rsync 2.6.3 rsync client is AIX 5.3 ML1 - rsync 2.6.4 Thanks -Jeff -- Jeff Schoby

Rsync and foreign letters in filenames.

2005-04-12 Thread Stuart Halliday
I'm running cwrync : rsync version 2.6.4 protocol version 29 on a Windows 2000 sp4 PC and I'm trying to rsync my favourites from my home PC to this Win2K machine. I run a batch file on this win2K machine. 99.99% of these .url files are transfered correctly. But the odd one doesn't get transf

rsync trigger

2005-04-12 Thread Krzysztof Gorzelak
Hi, I've got two linux servers with a slow connection between them. One each server, there is a samba running with some local users. I want to have an identical copy of that shared folder on both servers. Is there a chance that after any samba user changes a file, samba server will start rsyn