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2005 Oct 27
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Rsync over NFS mount sending whole files
...I have searched for
it online, with no conclusive, err.. conclusions.
Basically, when rsyncing two \test1(local) and \mnt\test2\ (NFS mount)
it seems that when using rsync with --no-whole-file entire files
(instead of just updated blocks) are sent through.
I am using the following command
rsync -avtz --no-whole-file \test1\ \mnt\test2\
For example, if say a particular file was 30KB, IPTRAF reports just
over 31KB transferred while rsync itself reports just a few bytes
(i.e. 200 or so).
I am thinking that either NFS is to blame, or that rsync is trying to
rebuild the file on the other side and...