I dont understand - scanning metadata is sped up by thrashing the head all over the disk instead of mostly-sequentially scanning through?
How does that work out? /kc On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 02:37:21PM +0000, samba-b...@samba.org said: >https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3099 > >--- Comment #8 from Chip Schweiss <c...@innovates.com> --- >I would argue that optionally all directory scanning should be made parallel. >Modern file systems perform best when request queues are kept full. The >current mode of rsync scanning directories does nothing to take advantage of >this. > >I currently use scripts to split a couple dozen or so rsync jobs in to >literally 100's of jobs. This reduces execution time from what would be days >to a couple hours every night. There are lots of scripts like this appearing >on the net because the current state of rsync is inadequate. > >This ticket could reasonably combined with 5124. > >-- >You are receiving this mail because: >You are the QA Contact for the bug. > >-- >Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. >To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync >Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- Ken Chase - k...@heavycomputing.ca skype:kenchase23 Toronto Canada Heavy Computing - Clued bandwidth, colocation and managed linux VPS @151 Front St. W. -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html