> > > 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* On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Cliff Pratt <enkiduonthenet at gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 7:57 AM, Steve Thompson <smt at vgersoft.com> wrote: > > > 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. > > > > ....and it may end up failing silently or noisily anyway. > > Cheers, > > Cliff > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- GPG me!! gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys F186197B