From: Anthony Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > You don't have to .. just create a hard link .. rsync will break the link
> > if the transfer completes.
>
> Umm.. Hang on.. no.. it would modify the same file.. and thus.. truncate
> it.. if it aborted early.. not a fix sorry..
Try it ... rsync does NOT modify files in place, it creates a temporary
file and then renames it if the transfer is successful, so the other link
(i.e. the old file) will remain.
> (Hard links are just like two directory entries pointing to the SAME
> data.. changes occur to the SAME data their pointing to.)
I do know what hard links are ... (Age must be good for something :-))
Cheers,
Stephen
