On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 10:16:32AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 04:02:36PM +0100, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > > I tried to copy that filesystem once (when it was much smaller) with "rsync > > -a -H", but after 3 days, rsync was still building an index and didn't copy > > any file. > > If you're going to copy the whole filesystem don't use rsync! Yes, I managed to kill systems (drive them really badly into oom and get very long swap storms) with rsync -H in the past too. Something is very wrong with the rsync implementation of this. > Use cp > or a tar pipeline to move the files. Are you sure cp handles hardlinks correctly? I know tar does, but I have my doubts about cp. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
