You may need a lot of ram. Take a look at how much RAM ZFS needs to operate well.
Henri > On 27/06/2020, at 7:58 AM, Rupert Gallagher via rsync <rsync@lists.samba.org> > wrote: > > Hello, > > As disks are slow and rsync reads and writes so much that for the bus this is > the equivalent of context switching galore, would it be possible to use RAM > as a buffer? Say, you have 10GB of spare RAM, rsync uses the bus to its peak > for reading 10GB, then again for writing it down. This would be more > efficient than lot of small read/write operations. > > Thank you > > > -- > 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 -- 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
