[CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

Sun Jun 22 17:28:35 UTC 2008
Raja Subramanian <rajasuperman at gmail.com>

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 3:36 AM, Rainer Duffner <rainer at ultra-secure.de> wrote:
> Now that I know the details - I don' think this is going to work. Not with
> 100 TB of data. It kind-of-works with 1 TB.
> Can anybody comment on the feasibility of rsync on 1 million files?

rsync always broke on my filesystems with 200-300k files
due to out of memory errors (my box had 2GB RAM).

- Raja