Re: Odd behaviour of two identical ZFS servers mirroring via rsync
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2022 16:13:56 UTC
On Sat, Nov 12, 2022 at 8:54 PM Bob Friesenhahn < bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote: > 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 are you saying when the target is zfs --inplace --no-whole-file helps or just in general when you have large files ? Also have you tried using --delete-during / --delete-after ? > Bob > -- > Bob Friesenhahn > bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ > GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ > Public Key, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/public-key.txt > > -- mark saad | nonesuch@longcount.org