bwlimit on rsync locally

John Van Essen vanes002 at umn.edu
Mon Mar 31 05:23:14 GMT 2008


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



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