Re: [tlug] Re: rsync efficiency (was: The Mother of All (bash) Commands)

["Jim Breen" <jimbreen@example.com>]

On 02/04/2008, Attila Kinali <attila@example.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 20:08:02 +1100
>  "Jim Breen" <jimbreen@example.com> wrote:
>  > Attila Kinali <attila@example.com> stunned us all with:
>  >
>  > >  My point is that rsync should at least be as fast as
>  > >  tarring and scp'ing said directory tree, ...
>  >
>  > Why?
>
> If it isn't faster, what's the point in using rsync?

For updating a directory full of small files - no point at all. Don't
know why you tried. It doesn't mean that rsync is useless/hopeless/bad/
inefficient/etc. It means you chose the wrong tool.

Cheers

Jim

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Jim Breen
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/