Any way to optimize --link-dest with lots of [small] files?
Andrew Gideon
c182driver1 at gideon.org
Sun May 17 17:53:11 GMT 2009
I use rsync --link-dest as the basis of a backup solution. It works
extremely well.
But one thing I've noticed is that it can spend hours in a loop of stat
(), getxattr(), link(), repeat. Is there some way to optimize this?
It's not a big deal, but I'm just wondering.
I did consider doing a copy w/o --link-dest, and then running a program
to look for linking opportunities, but I cannot imagine that this would
really be an improvement. And maybe improvement really isn't possible.
But I thought I'd ask, just in case...
Thanks...
Andrew
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