On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:26:08AM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote:
> If someone else would care to fix that, I'll certainly consider it.
Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, I recall that I didn't like
some things in how the patch worked, and began to work on signficant
changes, but never complet
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 08:18:26AM -0500, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> The distributed patch "drop-cache.diff" is an older version of this
> patch. Wayne, would you care to update it?
His updated patch ignored all the improvments that I put into to the
first patch, and I didn't feel like redoing them.
On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 07:15 +, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Jerome Haltom wrote:
> > The problem is that during the rsync process the user's machine is
> > barely usable. The reason is because rsync reads these 2GB files... many
> > GBs of them. This causes the user's machine to repeatidly trash the p
Jerome Haltom wrote:
> The problem is that during the rsync process the user's machine is
> barely usable. The reason is because rsync reads these 2GB files... many
> GBs of them. This causes the user's machine to repeatidly trash the page
> cache. This really is Linux's fault. It should realize th
I would appreciate the addition of this option, which would cause files
opened by rsync to be opened using the O_DIRECT flag, on Linux, at
least. Let me explain my circumstance:
I use rsync to migration VMware disk images from one machine to another
while the VM is running. This works really well:
