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2008 Apr 03
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combining --preallocate and --fuzzy
...switch as a basis for rsync. I want to
take this one step farther.
What I would like to accomplish is the merging of the .preallocate patch
and the .fuzzy option. When these 2 switches are used together (at least
on Windows platforms), I want rsync to determine which fuzzy file to use
(from the fuzzy_distance() function), but then go ahead and preallocate
the new file, not with posix_fallocate(), but with the contents of the
file matched from fuzzy_distance(). This would keep the destination
file from being severely fragmented.
What I see happening is rsync doing a local file copy first, but not
block...