[CentOS] rsync question: building list taking forever

On Sun, 19 Oct 2014, Keith Keller wrote:

> I suspect that sshfs's relatively poor performance is having an impact
> on your transfer.  I have a 30TB filesystem which I rsync over an
> OpenVPN link, and building the file list doesn't take that long (maybe
> an hour?).  (The links themselves are reasonably fast; if yours are not
> that would have a negative impact too.)

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.

Steve