Mapped Drive

[Stephen Zemlicka]

After timing it, I found you're right.  Would this still help for online
storage though as most have much greater download bandwidth than upload.  So
it would basically download the file with your faster download speeds,
compare, then upload the changes with your slower upload speeds.

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-----Original Message-----
From: hashproduct at gmail.com [mailto:hashproduct at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Matt
McCutchen
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 6:51 PM
To: Stephen Zemlicka
Cc: rsync at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: Mapped Drive

On 9/24/07, Stephen Zemlicka <stevezemlicka at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think I got it (with the help of a friend).  You can, in fact, rsync to
a
> mapped drive efficiently.  You must include --no-whole-file.  My 100MB
file
> only transferred a few MB using that method and it opened up with the
> changes just fine.  Now it works just like I want.  It's not the quickest
> but definitely quicker than uploading hundreds of MB for each database.

Of course --no-whole-file will make rsync report a smaller number of
"bytes sent", but is it actually reducing the amount of I/O to the
mapped drive?  If so, I find this really surprising.  The one
explanation I can think of is that the network filesystem has cached
the file, so reading the basis file costs nothing and writing only the
changed areas (due to --inplace) is a big saving.  Is this the case?

Matt