Re: [SLE] cp and hardlinks

On Tuesday 25 July 2006 17:06, Dave Howorth wrote:

PS Before anybody says "use rsync", I was, but ... there are rather a lot of files. I had to give it 12 GB of swap space to build its list and it was taking well over 24 hours to run. I can't give it 24 hours :(

i believe you may have had a recursive link in there somewhere. i've used rsync a lot, on large data amounts (50k files+), and never seen it swap like that. See rsync's options for following/copying symlinks. -- ----- stephan@s11n.net http://s11n.net "...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands of the will." -- Alan W. Watts