Mapped Drive

[Stephen Zemlicka]

Is there a way to have rsync cache the checksums for something like this and
would that help?

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Stephen Zemlicka
Integrated Computer Technologies
PH. 608-558-5926
E-Mail stevezemlicka at gmail.com 

-----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