Rsync with sftp account

[David Stainton]

The inefficiency has to do with the FUSE frontend to Tahoe-LAFS. Just
don't use it... Tahoe-LAFS is not a POSIX compliant filesystem and
cannot efficiently perform random writes.

I suggest using the tahoe backup command to backup files to a tahoe grid.


On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 5:10 AM, Freelab initiative
<freelab.cc at gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> to my humble observations,
>
> trying to make a rsync over a sftp frontend to tahoe grid is not working
> very efficiently
>
> rsync is asking to read so much the tahoe grid
> and tahoe lafs is not a fast file system
>
> so the rsync at the end is very slow
>
>
> maybe there is another way to achieve what you want to do
>
> 2015-07-27 21:46 GMT+02:00 David Stainton <dstainton415 at gmail.com>:
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>> Why is a question about rsync sent to a list about Tahoe-LAFS?
>> Seriously, I fail to see the connection between Tahoe-LAFS and
>> rsync... except for the file paradigm... they both deal with file like
>> objects... and that's cool and all but what exactly do you want?
>>
>> Do you want to use Tahoe-LAFS with rsync? This isn't trivially
>> possible. Tahoe-LAFS does not in fact implement a filesystem...
>> instead think of it as a key value data store.
>>
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>> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 12:06 PM, InfoTest <infoteststg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Is it true that rsync doesn't know difference between two directory?
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