[COLUG] rsync question

[Duane]

Rick Troth wrote:
>> Is there an explanation for the size discrepency?  Did I screw up some
>> hard or soft links in some way?  Device nodes?  What should I look for?
> 
> As SPP said,  sparse files will inflate if not handled with care.
> 
> Also,  do you know the blocksize of the two filesystems?
> (comparing source to target)   I learned today that there MAY
> have been a change in the default for EXT2/3 from 1K to 4K.
> If this is correct,  or if for any reason the blocksizes differ,
> and you have a lot of small files,  you'll see increased consumption.
> (And that would be no foul-up on your part ... just progress.)

This is one of the benefits of reiserfs, it fills up the entire block
with multiple files, and was designed to house small files, and does
better then most other FS afaik.

It doesn't have much if any advantage on larger files iirc.

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