| gabriel rosenkoetter on Fri, 5 Apr 2002 15:00:15 +0200 |
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On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 02:06:07AM -0500, Chuck Peters wrote: > If Ian is moving 7 gigs of data from milaukee wisconsin it seems likely > the network will cause a problem and drop the transfer. rsync has > compression, uses rsh and it will pick up where it left off if your use > the --partial option. A valid point. > I don't know if rsync has the 2 gig file limitation. A year old post on > the rsync page http://rsync.samba.org/rsync/fom-serve/cache/50.html lists > an unanswered question about the 2 gig limit on AIX. I have transferred > more than 2 gigs at a time with rsync, but it was a lot of files. On one > occasion I had a problem with rsync when I tried to transfer a 20 gig disk > with thousands of files, the machine ran out of memory building the file > listing. I think it's more likely that AIX problems with >2 GB files come from AIX's libc than from anything rsync did or didn't do. Neither transferring many files totalling >2 GBs nor failing to transfer many files because rsync couldn't build a file list to parse on the other end says much about sizeof(blksize_t) for that operating system on that architecture. (But I think you know that.) -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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