Re: parallel tree recursion

2005-12-05 Thread Wayne Davison
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 05:29:32PM -0600, Phil Howard wrote: > How hard would it be to have rsync do the file recursion scan on both the > source tree and the destination tree at the same time in parallel? Would > that require a protocol change, or could just a program change be enough? It might

Re: parallel tree recursion

2005-12-02 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 00:56 +0100, Christoph Biedl wrote: > Phil Howard wrote... > > It would also be nice if rsync didn't have to collect the entire tree in > > RAM all at once, but instead, both source and destination could recurse > > their respective trees in sync with each other and copy, crea

Re: parallel tree recursion

2005-12-02 Thread Christoph Biedl
Phil Howard wrote... > I have some very large directories I'd like to syncronize. Total time to > scan through these millions of files is a substantial portion of an hour > or even exceeds it. It just goes slower if these large critical time blocks > have to be done sequentially. Yeah, same her