https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3461
--- Comment #3 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-01-28 18:27 MST ---
Hmmm. It's true that rsync interleaves memory-mapped reads from the basis file
and writes to the temporary file. A smart disk scheduler should avoid making
the head dart ba
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3461
--- Comment #2 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-01-28 16:45 MST ---
I was a bit unclear, it's not that it's just a different device, it's a
different physical disk.
For a dataset of about 45GB we see an rsync time of about 2 hrs. When we use
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3461
--- Comment #1 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-01-28 14:19 MST ---
I don't see how using a --temp-dir on a different device could make the
transfer faster, if indeed it does. At some point, all of the data of file.dat
must go from memory to
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3461
Summary: rsync is not atomic when temp-dir is on different device
Product: rsync
Version: 2.6.7
Platform: Other
OS/Version: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
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