Unison 2.10.2 fast update check broken?

Rolf Campbell thats.unpossible@gmail.com
Tue Jul 19 14:51:00 GMT 2005


Rolf Campbell wrote:
> Marcus Picasso wrote:
> 
>> Seems that Cygwin port of the unison file synchronizer does not do the
>> -fastcheck very well. Transcript follows:
>>
> ...
> 
>>
>> Can somebody confirm / explain this behaviour? I have a large tree 
>> that I'm
>> synchronizing across two hard-disks, and got suspicious when re-running
>> synchronization takes longer than expected. The above transcript 
>> functions as
>> expected using linux or native Win32 unison builds.
>>
>> Regards,
>> -Marcus.
> 
> 
> 
> I have noticed a change in how -fastcheck which seems to be caused by my 
> upgrade from cygwin 1.5.14 -> 1.5.16.  I tried doing a unison sync 
> between a maching running 1.5.14 and a machine running 1.5.16 when I 
> noticed the 1.5.16 machine spent a lot of time grinding the disk.  So, I 
> upgraded the 1.5.14 machine to 1.5.16 and it too went from a 10 second 
> scan time to a half hour of heavy disk access.

It seems that this bug is back again.  I'm not sure if it was the 
1.5.18-1 upgrade that caused it, but now my unison is back to slow file 
scanning.
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