rsync of a reflink from OCFS2

Remi Gauvin remi at georgianit.com
Wed Mar 14 14:04:16 UTC 2018


On 2018-03-14 09:41 AM, Lentes, Bernd via rsync wrote:

> 
> also when the target is a cifs share, it's still considered as local ?
> Is there something i can do to get the diff algorithm used ?
> Copying via ssh to the cifs server is unfortunately not possible.
> 

If you really wanted to, you could use the --no-whole-file option, *but*
the result is not what you expect.

Remember that Rsync has to read the entire destination file so it can
compare to the source.  You'll actually end up increasing your io over
the network




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