huge number of files

[Ming Zhang]

On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 17:07 -0400, Ming Zhang wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 17:04 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> > On 6/22/07, Ming Zhang <blackmagic02881 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I wonder if rsync can have an option that when it scan the file system
> > > tree and accumulate to N number of files, it process these files before
> > > scanning further.
> > 
> > The current CVS rsync works this way ("incremental recursion") by
> > default.  It will be released as rsync 3.0.0 at some point.
> 
> cool! i will check it out.
> 
> eager to ask, is there any option i can control the incremental batch
> size?
> 

checked out and found. thx.


> 
> > 
> > > This might break the operation on files with multiple hard links or
> > > detecting rename. But we are ok on this.
> > 
> > Right; if you ask for any of those things, the CVS rsync doesn't use
> > incremental recursion mode.
> > 
> > Matt
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