large blocksize for transferring files from one filesystem to another on the same disk?

Wayne Davison wayned at samba.org
Tue Sep 7 23:17:11 GMT 2004


On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 02:02:23PM -0700, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> Is there any way of increasing rsync's block transfer size for when you
> need to transfer data from one filesystem to another on the same disk?

Since a local transfer is using --whole-file mode, it should be possible
to just set the --block-size to a really large value (in bytes).

..wayne..


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