Nobody reads the rsync man page and assumes that it is recommending a
commercial product. And nobody is going to read an "enhanced" rsync man
page and get incentivised to start an open-source software project.
Everybody knows that a mention of "Word" or "Photoshop" in an example
refers to a gener
I have a sensor collector system (very low-powered slow ARM cpu), and
another system which daily pulls the data files from it for processing.
There are about 1000 new files each day. As part of the processing it
decides that certain of the files are of no interest, and adds them to an
exclude file
I investigated the rsync code and found the reason why.
For every file in the source, it searches the entire filter-list looking to
see if that filename is on the exclude/include list. Most aren't, so it
compares (350K - 72K) * 72K names (the non-listed files) plus (72K * 72K/2)
names (the ones th
Ken, this just happens to be a special case where your configuration has a
huge number of spindles. If you have multiple threads reading the same
spindle you'll just be thrashing the heads back & forth. If there is one
thread reading at the front of the disk and another thread reading at the
end
" Feature 1: tags"
Sounds like this would be no less work for the user than just having
include/exclude filter list(s).
But right now rsync works poorly with large filter lists. That's something
I have fixed, but just haven't submitted the patches yet.
Also: is xattr supported on all OS's and fi
