rsync is bad

Smoot Carl-Mitchell smoot at tic.com
Sun Jun 8 22:27:07 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 15:21 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote:

> Rsync's strength is in file copies ACROSS a network because it only
> copies the changed parts of files across.  When you use rsync on a
> computer to copy from one drive to another, it uses the local drive
> mode and it does not try to copy just the changed parts.  It is no
> better than running "cp -Ra x y" to copy recursively in archive mode.

Even locally, it uses its differential copy algorithm.  e.g. if the
files are the same, it does not copy them.
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Smoot Carl-Mitchell
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