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| author |  Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2015-08-11 13:36:22 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2015-08-11 13:36:22 -0400 |
| commit | 431627f674ab547196e499f0d3a470061fa74fa2 (patch) | |
| tree | ed6b7fdb1a13804f227083573ada62501f47a674 | |
| parent | 523e4997d7158a9beedd3211d7b7da9dd3b639fe (diff) | |
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diff --git a/doc/todo/speed_up_transfers_over_ssh+rsync_--_directly_reuse_the_same_connection__63__/comment_5_fca151591d0c6c75013711cb5de81d47._comment b/doc/todo/speed_up_transfers_over_ssh+rsync_--_directly_reuse_the_same_connection__63__/comment_5_fca151591d0c6c75013711cb5de81d47._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a7130ea74 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/speed_up_transfers_over_ssh+rsync_--_directly_reuse_the_same_connection__63__/comment_5_fca151591d0c6c75013711cb5de81d47._comment @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""comment 5""" + date="2015-08-11T17:27:23Z" + content=""" +AFAIK, it's not possible to run multiple separate rsync transfers over a single +connection; rsync closes the connection after a transfer is complete (and +the rsync protocol is nowhere documented, and has only one implementation +so there's no way to avoid this behavior). + +So, rsync would need to be told a whole list of files to transfer in one go, +which poses many difficulties, including for git-annex's progress display, +and for needing to queue up a set of files when eg `git annex get` is picking +which ones to get. + +I'd want to see a lot more measurements of where bottlenecks are in +the current system, before seriously considering such a thing. +"""]] |