rsync - Sep 2004 - large blocksize for transferring files from one filesystem to another on the same disk?

Is there any way of increasing rsync's block transfer size for when you
need to transfer data from one filesystem to another on the same disk?

Using a large blocksize tends to decrease track to track seeks.  If I
put a large dd or something in between two tar's in such a situation, I
see over double the throughput on an AIX system (1M vs 64K).

Thanks.

-- 
Dan Stromberg DCS/NACS/UCI <strombrg@dcs.nac.uci.edu>

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On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 02:02:23PM -0700, Dan Stromberg
wrote:
> Is there any way of increasing rsync's block transfer size for when you
> need to transfer data from one filesystem to another on the same disk?
Since a local transfer is using --whole-file mode, it should be possible
to just set the --block-size to a really large value (in bytes).

..wayne..