21 Oct
2014
21 Oct
'14
10:56 a.m.
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Tim Dunphy bluethundr@gmail.com wrote:
Don't forget that the time taken to build the file list is a function
of
the number of files present, and not their size. If you have many
millions
of small files, it will indeed take a very long time. Over sshfs with a slowish link, it could be days.
....and it may end up failing silently or noisily anyway.
Ahhh, but isn't that part of the beauty of adventure that being a linux admin is all about? *twitch*
Adventure? Nah, that's why my rsync scripts rsync chunks of the filesystem rather than all of it in one go, and why it gets to run twice each time. Once bitten, twice shy.
Cheers,
Cliff