Re: patch to stop rsync from polluting the filesystem cache

2007-05-04 Thread Wayne Davison
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 05:42:23PM +0200, Tobias Oetiker wrote: > I have written a patch for rsync that adds the > --drop-cache > option which activates posix_fadvise64. Thanks. I've put this in the patches dir (at least for the moment): it is named drop-cache.diff. ..wayne.. -- To unsubscrib

patch to stop rsync from polluting the filesystem cache

2007-04-22 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi List, I am using rsync for hard-link backup. I found that there is a major problem with frequent backup filling up the file system cache with all the data from the files being backed up. The effect is that all the other 'sensible' data in the cache gets thrown out in the process. This is rather