Les Mikesell wrote:
> Shaun Curry wrote:
>> Thanks Les for this.  Does anyone have a working rsync with -H option 
>> over a sshfs? 
> 
> The concept doesn't make very much sense.  If you mount a remote site 
> via sshfs and run rsync locally it's going to have to read all of the 
> remote data through the filesystem mount for comparison and not save you 
> any bandwidth with the remote block-checksum technique.

That's why you should use the '-W' option with rsync.
It says don't use the magic rsync algorithm.

I think rsync is great but in cases when you have
only new files or files that change completely, the
rsync algorithm doesn't do anything for you that
I can see.

-- 
Jon Forrest
Research Computing Support
College of Chemistry
173 Tan Hall
University of California Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
94720-1460
510-643-1032
jlforrest AT berkeley DOT edu

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