Re:My experience with using cp to copy 432 million files (39...
by lysium on Friday September 12, 2014 @05:32AM
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> The problem with rsync is that it would have to traverse all the FS tree and check every single file on both sides for the timestamp and the file.
- In this scenario, the receiving side is empty, so there is no need to check every single file.
- Since 3.0, rsync walks the dirtree while copying (unless you use some special options). So, in some sense, rsync is already "deep syncing inside the FS tree", as you put it.
- In this scenario, the receiving side is empty, so there is no need to check every single file.
- Since 3.0, rsync walks the dirtree while copying (unless you use some special options). So, in some sense, rsync is already "deep syncing inside the FS tree", as you put it.