Infinite loop on files > 2Gb

2007-05-20 Thread Steven Hartland
I'm using rsync to sync DB files from a FreeBSD box to a Windows XP box under interix. Until today everything was fine but now as soon as the windows box hits one file which is now greater than 2Gb it goes into an infinite loop in generator.c:sum_sizes_sqroot The code at fault seems to be: for (

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2007-05-20 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi List, I use rsync with the --link-dir feature for hard-linked snapshot-like backups. If there are large files involved, this will blow away the file-system cache. The result is a bad performance hit for applications that had all their files happily in cache before. Using posix_fadvise and minc