On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 12:09:54PM +0500, Roman Mamedov wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2018 23:59:03 -0700
> Marc MERLIN <m...@merlins.org> wrote:
>
> > I don't waste a week recreating the many btrfs send/receive relationships.
>
> Consider not using send/receive, and switching to regular rsync instead.
> Send/receive is very limiting and cumbersome, including because of what you
> described. And it doesn't gain you much over an incremental rsync. As for
Err, sorry but I cannot agree with you here, at all :)
btrfs send/receive is pretty much the only reason I use btrfs.
rsync takes hours on big filesystems scanning every single inode on both
sides and then seeing what changed, and only then sends the differences
It's super inefficient.
btrfs send knows in seconds what needs to be sent, and works on it right
away.
Marc
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