Re: Rsync over NFS mount sending whole files

2005-10-28 Thread Paul Slootman
On Fri 28 Oct 2005, Anban Mestry wrote: > Amazing. Connecting to the NFS server directly instead of through a > mount results in much better transfers. Thank you. It looks like just > the updated portions of the files are zoomed across. That is the case... > A dumb question, but why? Does the rs

Re: Rsync over NFS mount sending whole files

2005-10-28 Thread Anban Mestry
Amazing. Connecting to the NFS server directly instead of through a mount results in much better transfers. Thank you. It looks like just the updated portions of the files are zoomed across. A dumb question, but why? Does the rsync daemon on the server side have anything to do with this? Or does t

Re: Rsync over NFS mount sending whole files

2005-10-27 Thread Wayne Davison
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 07:27:09PM +0200, Anban Mestry wrote: > rsync -avtz --no-whole-file \test1\ \mnt\test2\ You don't want to do that, because --no-whole-file optimizes rsync's socket I/O at the expense of disk I/O, which means that you're making things less efficient when the "connection" bet

Re: Rsync over NFS mount sending whole files

2005-10-27 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
Hi, On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Anban Mestry wrote: I'm not sure if anyone has experienced this, and I have searched for it online, with no conclusive, err.. conclusions. Basically, when rsyncing two \test1(local) and \mnt\test2\ (NFS mount) it seems that when using rsync with --no-whole-file entire

Rsync over NFS mount sending whole files

2005-10-27 Thread Anban Mestry
Hey all, I'm not sure if anyone has experienced this, and I have searched for it online, with no conclusive, err.. conclusions. Basically, when rsyncing two \test1(local) and \mnt\test2\ (NFS mount) it seems that when using rsync with --no-whole-file entire files (instead of just updated blocks)