On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 14:49 +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: > Unfortunately this also happens when the transfer is local and -z > happens to be passed as an option; the result is that the transfer is > slowed down significantly without any benefit at all. Rsync should > perhaps give a warning about the useless use of -z and maybe ignore it?
I don't think rsync should overrule what the user asked for. -z on a local transfer may be useful for testing the compression and for reducing the size of the batch file generated with --write-batch. -- Matt -- 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
