bwlimit on rsync locally

[John Van Essen]

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Reeve Yang <reeve.yang at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there anyway to make rsync use direct I/O bypassing FS buffer?

I'm not an expert on that by any means, but AFAIK, rsync supports that
only via this patch:

  http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/patches/drop-cache.diff

(You'll have to compile your own version of rsync.)

    John