Re: Odd behaviour of two identical ZFS servers mirroring via rsync

On Fri, 11 Nov 2022, andy thomas wrote:

> Yes, I can confirm the rsync --delete option is being used and in fact, 'du' 
> reports some of the mirrored folders as having identical sizes on both 
> servers, mainly those containing only small amounts of data.

I forgot to mention that a proven solution when using rsync is to use 
the '--inplace --no-whole-file' options.  These options help rsync to 
avoid doing wasteful things when updating existing files on a ZFS 
filesystem.

Bob
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