[OpenIndiana-discuss] rsync problems: out of memory

[Gregory Youngblood]

On Jul 15, 2011, at 1:12 PM, Frank Van Damme wrote:

> 2011/7/15 Frank Van Damme <frank.vandamme at gmail.com>:
>> It's not too flat. Actually I managed to rsync the same dataset to
>> Nexenta (well, I also had a failure, but later in the copy and not
>> consistant) which has an rsync version 3.0.7 while OI has 3.0.6 - I
>> now compiled 3.0.8 on OI so we'll see if 2 minor versions will make a
>> difference (quicker to try than to read the changelog ;) ).
> 
> ... no dice :-(
> 
> Which means: forget about using openindiana instead of Nexenta for backups.

It would be interesting to find what the difference is between them.

I know back when the Mac Mini first came out (years ago), you couldn't rsync lots of files to/from the Mac (the problem was the OS at the time, using when the Mac Mini was first introduced as a time reference, not a problem with the Mini itself).

It persisted from 10.3 into 10.4. Don't know when they finally fixed it, but 10.5 and 10.6 haven't had that problem for me.

Doesn't make much difference here, just that OI isn't the only place that's had problems with big rsync jobs. :)