Re: Concern: rsync failing to find some attributes in a file transfer?

2014-07-26 Thread Dan Stromberg
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 11:35 PM, Kevin Korb wrote: >> I just moved my home partition to a new harddisk w/more space. > > Home Partition? Are we in 1995? Why would you have a partition > mounted anywhere other than /boot ? That's a bit harsh, particularly considering that having a /home partiti

Re: Concern: rsync failing to find some attributes in a file transfer?

2014-07-26 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 07/26/2014 03:34:23 PM, Kevin Korb wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I wasn't objecting to the use of multiple file systems. I have a > bunch of them too. I was objecting to the use of partitions to > achieve multiple files systems. Logical volume management has be

Re: Concern: rsync failing to find some attributes in a file transfer?

2014-07-26 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I wasn't objecting to the use of multiple file systems. I have a bunch of them too. I was objecting to the use of partitions to achieve multiple files systems. Logical volume management has been available for a long time and now we also have access

Re: increasing the write block size for high latency

2014-07-26 Thread Adam Edgar
On Jul 26, 2014, at 2:53 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote: > On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 8:07 AM, Adam Edgar wrote: >> It seems the issue is indeed in the ssh layer. scp has the same issue and >> some work has been done in “fixing” that: >> >> http://www.psc.edu/index.php/hpn-ssh >> >> From the papers abst

Re: Concern: rsync failing to find some attributes in a file transfer?

2014-07-26 Thread L. A. Walsh
Wayne Davison wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 10:52 PM, L. A. Walsh > wrote: Why would or how would the files and attr-names get transfered but be missing? Give 3.1.1 a try -- it has a fix in it for miss-sorted attr names when running as non-root. Alternately

Re: increasing the write block size for high latency

2014-07-26 Thread Dan Stromberg
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 8:07 AM, Adam Edgar wrote: > It seems the issue is indeed in the ssh layer. scp has the same issue and > some work has been done in “fixing” that: > > http://www.psc.edu/index.php/hpn-ssh > > From the papers abstract: > > SCP and the underlying SSH2 protocol impleme

Re: Concern: rsync failing to find some attributes in a file transfer?

2014-07-26 Thread Wayne Davison
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 10:52 PM, L. A. Walsh wrote: > Why would or how would the files and attr-names get transfered but be > missing? Give 3.1.1 a try -- it has a fix in it for miss-sorted attr names when running as non-root. Alternately, try running (at least the receiving side) as root. H

Re: rsync 3.1.0/3.1.1 incompatible with 2.5.7

2014-07-26 Thread Wayne Davison
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 11:43 PM, Ole Tange wrote: > Finding the remote version will be slow. Is there any reason why I don't > just look at the local version, and if $version >= 3.1.0 then add > '--protocol=30'. When will that break down? > It won't break -- you'll just miss out on the protocol

Re: increasing the write block size for high latency

2014-07-26 Thread L. A. Walsh
Jonathan Aquilina wrote: One thing you that im not seeing factored in is rpm speed of the drives. Since my tests are run on the same machines and drives, such things factor out (as do cpu Hz, memory speeds, controller firmware, ... etc). Make sense? -- Please use reply-all for most repli

Re: increasing the write block size for high latency

2014-07-26 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
One thing you that im not seeing factored in is rpm speed of the drives. On 26 Jul 2014 15:05, "L. A. Walsh" wrote: > Adam Edgar wrote: > >> It seems the issue is indeed in the ssh layer. scp has the same issue and >> some work has been done in “fixing” that: >> >> http://www.psc.edu/index.php/hp

Re: Concern: rsync failing to find some attributes in a file transfer?

2014-07-26 Thread L. A. Walsh
Kevin Korb wrote: I ran the util and have gotten odd results each time I ran it. What util? What results? Besides the ones I included in the previous email, I ALSO experienced this: (from bug https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10724): "The above was just a toy exampl

Re: increasing the write block size for high latency

2014-07-26 Thread L. A. Walsh
Adam Edgar wrote: It seems the issue is indeed in the ssh layer. scp has the same issue and some work has been done in “fixing” that: http://www.psc.edu/index.php/hpn-ssh From the papers abstract: Status: O SCP and the underlying SSH2 protocol implementation in OpenSSH is network per

Re: Concern: rsync failing to find some attributes in a file transfer?

2014-07-26 Thread L. A. Walsh
Kevin Korb wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/26/2014 01:52 AM, L. A. Walsh wrote: I have a regular script I run to make static "snapshots" of my home file system, with each being all the files that changed in the past 24 hours. I am not clear about the nature

Re: Concern: rsync failing to find some attributes in a file transfer?

2014-07-26 Thread Paul Slootman
On Sat 26 Jul 2014, Kevin Korb wrote: > > > I just moved my home partition to a new harddisk w/more space. > > Home Partition? Are we in 1995? Why would you have a partition > mounted anywhere other than /boot ? Didn't we just have this discussion already recently? There are valid reasons to h