It will do deltas if you change the same file, but not if you have a mostly-similar file. -----Original Message----- From: Venky Shankar <vshankar at redhat.com> Date: Wednesday, 18 July 2012 2:05 PM To: "gluster-users at gluster.org" <gluster-users at gluster.org> Subject: Re: georeplication on huge files >On 07/18/2012 03:14 AM, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: >> how does gluster perform on huge file georeplication like a VM disk >> based image? >> >> Let's assume a 150GB image on a single file. Does it replicate the whole >> file every time, like rsync, or only differences will be replicated? > >AFAIK, Rsync does not blindly sync whole file. It uses rolling checksum >algorithm to decide which blocks to sync. > >Geo replication relies on Rsync to sync file contents after it has >identified that need synchronization. > >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gluster-users mailing list >> Gluster-users at gluster.org >> http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >> > > >Thanks, >--Venky > >_______________________________________________ >Gluster-users mailing list >Gluster-users at gluster.org >http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >
