On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Gordon Messmer <yinyang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 01/19/2013 11:31 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: >> agreed, except if both source and dest are local, eg back up to a USB >> HD. If you test that you'll see the speedup is 1 (ie no speedup). > > I actually never realized that. Thanks. I guess that makes sense - on a local file it would take longer to do the read for comparison followed by writing back merging the changes than to just write the whole thing. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos