Re: [Duplicity-talk] --max-blocksize?

[edgar . soldin]

yo Ken,

will one branch do? to lazy to do one for each branches.. ede


On 19.10.2014 18:39, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> ede,
> 
> Sure, go ahead.  Thanks!
> 
> ...Ken
> 
> 
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 11:21 AM, <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> 
> wrote:
> 
>     hey Ken,
> 
>     nicely explained.. want to put that in the manpage?
> 
>     ..ede
> 
>     On 19.10.2014 18:05, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
>     > Remy,
>     >
>     > Sorry about not getting back to you sooner...
>     >
>     > max_blocksize determines the size of the block examined for changes 
> during the diff process.  For files < 1MB the blocksize is a constant of 512. 
>  For files over 1MB the size is given by:
>     >
>     >         file_blocksize = int((file_len / (2000 * 512)) * 512)
>     >         return min(file_blocksize, globals.max_blocksize)
>     >
>     > where globals.max_blocksize is defaulted to 2048.  If you specify a 
> larger max_blocksize, your difftar files will be larger, but your sigtar 
> files will be smaller.  If you specify a smaller max_blocksize, the reverse 
> occurs.  The --max-blocksize option should be in multiples of 512.
>     >
>     > ...Thanks,
>     > ...Ken
>     >
>     >
>     > On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Remy van Elst <address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden> <mailto:address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>>> 
> wrote:
>     >
>     >     duplicity --help shows me the following option:
>     >
>     >       --max-blocksize=number
>     >
>     >     What does it do and in what unit is the "number"? I can only find a
>     >     launchpad ticket for large files, the man page on the website does 
> not
>     >     list this option. Is there any more info?
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