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Actually, don't do --ignore-times. Even if it did prevent the stat calls it would also tell rsync to not care about matching files in the --link-dest dir which would be very bad. On 06/09/2016 06:27 AM, Kevin Korb wrote: > There isn't an option for that and it isn't actually required that the > target directory be empty (just a good idea). Plus it has to do the > stat calls

Thanks for your answer, I ran some more test and it show that the lstat calls are only responsible for 3.7 % of the total time. So we could avoid about a third of them (the errors numbers), which will be about 1%, not very interesting :) % time seconds usecs/call calls errors syscall ------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ---------------- 3.74 1.792339

Hello, I'm currently using rsync to backup up to 1 TB of small files of relatively small files (hundreds of Ko mostly) My backup strategy is to use a full backup and then backup the diff every day using hardlink with the previous backup. This means that each time I use rsync, the destination directory is empty. Using strace, I can see that rsync call a 'lstat' command to try to