rsync -S

[T. Horsnell]

On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 10:10:49AM -0400, Jeff Voskamp wrote:
> T. Horsnell wrote:
> >rsync and tar offer the -S switch for 'handling sparse files efficiently'.
> >But when would I ever want to handle them INefficiently? i.e. why doesnt it
> >do this automatically?
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Terry.
> >  
> Because detecting sparse files is "expensive".  For files with only a 
> few holes (sparely sparse?) it may be deemed cheaper to waste a few 
> blocks on the drive rather than the CPU time to handle it "properly".

Ah, thank you.
Cheers,
Terry

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> Jeff
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