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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Limit recursion depth
From: jw schultz <jw () pegasys ! ws>
Date: 2003-06-23 23:14:59
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On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 04:09:18PM -0700, jw schultz wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 10:06:51PM +0200, Richard Mueller wrote:
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> > Hy folks,
> >
> > everybody knows, that rsync eats up a lot of memory, when rsyncing
> > a lot of files.
> >
> > To avoid this i run rsync on different parts of the directory-tree
> > (e.g. first ~muchofileuser/muchofilesdir1 then
> > ~muchofileuser/muchofilesdir2 and so on) and it works fine for me.
> >
> > So i tried to do this in a automatical way (e.g perl/shell/whatever
> > script) but rsync is missing one feature for that:
> >
> > Limit the depth of recursion in "recursive"-Mode.
> >
> > So i wrote this ugly patch, that works-for-me(TM):
>
> It is easy to limit recursion with exclude patterns like
> /*/*/ or /*/*/*/*/
And by the way; thanks for the effort of comming up with a
patch instead of just whining.
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