Package: rsync
Version: 2.6.8-2
Followup-For: Bug #337827
Hello,
Any progress on this bug ?
The way rsync is handling sparse file is suboptimal. It leaves any
backup policy based on rsync open to a trivial DoS with thinks link the
following :
dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfake bs=1k count=1 seek=2000000000
rsync -e ssh -avS bigfake [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp
At that point you wait for 2TB of unusfull zeros been transferred
between the src-server and the backup_server... Annoying.
I've been beaten by this feature twice already. Students borking some
seek/lseek maths while writing to files... We got several 100GB files
to transfert during the backup at night...
@+,
Fab
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-1-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages rsync depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libpopt0 1.10-3 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
rsync recommends no packages.
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