Building file list takes hours,how to improve performance?

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Thu, 2006-11-02 09:21:45 +0800, woo robbin <robbinwooo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2006/11/1, Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw at lug-owl.de>:
> >On Wed, 2006-11-01 22:01:07 +0800, woo robbin <robbinwooo at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > I've backed up some files(about 20G,with many subdirectories and files) a
> > > months ago to an USB drive,and I use rsync to check if there are
> > > changes.After the process,I checked the log file and found no update
> > > needed.But the stats said:
> > >
> > > File list generation time: 8631.470 seconds
> > > File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds
> > 
> > Well, the USB stuff tends to be slow. And untuned filesystems are
> > that, too. If it's ext3, you'd play with the dir_index flag.
> But the USB drive is the target,could it affect the performance of building
> file list process?I just plugged the USB drive to the host and copy and
> paste to do a full backup last time,it seems it's more effective than rsync
> to check updating.

Well, file list generation means to read the complete list of files on
both sides.

MfG, JBG

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