Answer by Jimmy Selgen Nielsen for Why rsync is faster than NFS?
I assume the increased speed is at least partly due to "rsync src host:/path" spawning a local process on the remote machine for sending/receiving, effectively cutting your I/O in half.
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if you're goal is to just copy all files from one place to another, then tar/netcat will be the fastest option.if you know that you have lots of whitespace in your files (zeros) then use the -i...
View ArticleAnswer by notpeter for Why rsync is faster than NFS?
Maybe it's not slower transfer speed, but increased write latency. Try mounting the NFS share async instead of sync and see if that closes the speed gap. When you rsync over ssh, the remote rsync...
View ArticleAnswer by n8whnp for Why rsync is faster than NFS?
Do you have file locking setup on the nfsshare? You might get a lot more preformance if that was disabled.
View ArticleAnswer by Slartibartfast for Why rsync is faster than NFS?
This is interesting. A possibility that you may not have considered is the content / type of file you are transmitting.If you have scads of little files (e.g. emails in individual files), NFS...
View ArticleAnswer by pcunite for Why rsync is faster than NFS?
Rsync is a file protocol that transfers only the changed bits between files. NFS is a remote directory file protocol that handles everything every time ... kind of like a SMB in a way. The two are...
View ArticleAnswer by Massimo for Why rsync is faster than NFS?
NFS is a sharing protocol, while Rsync is optimized for file transfers; there are lots of optimizations which can be done when you know a priori that your goal is to copy files around as fast as...
View ArticleWhy rsync is faster than NFS?
Few days ago I noticed something rather odd (at least for me). I ran rsync copying the same data and deleting it afterwards to NFS mount, called /nfs_mount/TEST. This /nfs_mount/TEST is hosted/exported...
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