Re: What is the default compression level for local synchronisation?

2015-10-04 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You should not use compression at all on local copies. It is nothing but wasted CPU cycles. On 10/04/2015 08:06 AM, Charles wrote: > Searching the 'net showed that rsync asks zlib to use default > compression which is equivalent to --compress-level=

What is the default compression level for local synchronisation?

2015-10-04 Thread Charles
Searching the 'net showed that rsync asks zlib to use default compression which is equivalent to --compress-level=6 (http://samba.2283325.n4.nabble.com/what-is-the-default-value-for-compress-level-tp2538905.html) but that would not be a good choice for local synchronisation. Should we use --compre