Speeding rsync via externalities like file system choice

[Andrew Gideon]

On Thu, 20 May 2010 23:38:24 +0000, Andrew Gideon wrote:

> Copying this volume takes hours...far more than other volumes of similar
> size.  I blame the much larger amount of directory traversal (and
> comparisons between source and destination) that are occurring.

BTW, running a trace on this shows a huge amount of time spent on:
	
	lstat64(...)=ENOENT
	link(...)=0
	
for different files.  It's not that these are slow, but there are so many 
of these!

	- Andrew