[CentOS] rsync question: building list taking forever

Sun Oct 19 23:15:49 UTC 2014
Keith Keller <kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us>

On 2014-10-19, Steve Thompson <smt at vgersoft.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.

Well, sure.  My assumption is that the OP's ~120GB of storage was
likely not more files than my 30TB.  (I have a lot of large files, but a
lot of small files too.)

--keith

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