Re: rsync to ext2 filesystem issues

[Luis Falcon <falcon%gnuhealth.org@localhost>]

Good afternoon, Ramiro!
El Mon, 7 Sep 2026 11:20:24 +0200
Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz%gmail.com@localhost> escribió:
> El 7/9/26 a las 10:54, Ramiro Aceves escribió:
> > El lun, 7 sept 2026 a las 10:44, RVP (<rvp%sdf.org@localhost>) escribió:  
> >>
> >> On Mon, 7 Sep 2026, Ramiro Aceves wrote:
> >>  
> >>> Now rsync stopped into another file among the Mozilla firefox
> >>> directory that owns trillions of files.
> >>>  
> >>
> >> Is that number metaphorical, or are there literally 10^12 files
> >> somewhere? And where? On the FS, or in a single dir., or in some
> >> tree, or what?  
> > 
> > Yes, it is metaphorical, when I arrive home I will tell you the
> > actual file count.
> >   
> 
> I have connected remotely
> 
> netbsd-nuc$ pwd
> /home/ramiro/.mozilla/firefox/527cpmj0.default-default-2/storage/permanent
> 
> netbsd-nuc$ find . | wc -l
>      2243
> 

That's a reasonably small amount of files. Can you rule out
a hardware issue of the drive itself? Maybe doing a (compressed) tar
recursively on the contents from the ext2 USB to your internal drive?
That would also let you compare performance with rsync.

Best
Luis