On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Michael Brian - IL <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:MICHAELB@tusc.com">MICHAELB@tusc.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><span><font size="2" face="Arial">I am looking for an
enhancement to multi-thread or parallelize rsync.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font size="2" face="Arial">Are there any plans
that would allow one to set a parameter, like 'number_of_threads' and rsync will ship
multiple files at the same time?</font></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Not at present. That would be a pretty big protocol change, and is probably something that would be best left to a new-protocol rewrite. It would be quite interesting to have separate connections for the hierarchy traversal code versus one or more file transfer connections that were controlled by the traversal process, but that is not something that I'm working on, nor have I heard about anyone else doing that. <br>
</div><div><br clear="all">..wayne..<br> </div></div>