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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