Bill Landry wrote:
> Dennis Peterson wrote:
> 
>> It doesn't matter - I use rsync in these situations because all moves are 
>> atomic, all the time.
>>
>> I have a mail server farm that includes production and dev systems, and NFS 
>> is 
>> used to access a large ZFS file system to redistribute this stuff.
>>
>> There is another reason to use rsync even within a file system - when you 
>> use 
>> rsync to dl files from the internet it is a big advantage to preserve the 
>> previous version as you then only exchange the changed records (Sane 
>> Security, 
>> for example). Particularly if you are moving text files that change only at 
>> the 
>> end of the file (unsorted). If I were to do a move I'd not have that 
>> advantage 
>> unless I made a copy and moved it and don't you think that's going a bit far?
> 
> Well, I guess that would save one minuscule step in the process.
> However, you claimed to have everything scripted and timed via cron, so
> why would there ever be any file contention issues that would "require"
> local rsyncing of files? 

I don't know when clamd will self-check. Do you?

dp
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