Rsync over NFS mount sending whole files

[Eberhard Moenkeberg]

Hi,

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Anban Mestry wrote:

> I'm not sure if anyone has experienced this, and I have searched for
> it online, with no conclusive, err.. conclusions.
>
> Basically, when rsyncing two \test1(local) and \mnt\test2\ (NFS mount)
> it seems that when using rsync with --no-whole-file entire files
> (instead of just updated blocks) are sent through.
>
> I am using the following command
>
> rsync -avtz --no-whole-file \test1\ \mnt\test2\
>
> For example, if say a particular file was 30KB, IPTRAF reports just
> over 31KB transferred while rsync itself reports just a few bytes
> (i.e. 200 or so).

One of your "local only" rsync instances has to read the entire file in 
order to find out that only 200 bytes are to transfer. ;-))

Cheers -e
-- 
Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke at gwdg.de, em at kki.org)