On 15 Jul 2002, Dan Stromberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The issue was that demand > paging would glitch from .nfs* for no good reason.
That is an extremely unconvincing argument for changing rsync. > > Is it possible to just rsync onto the NFS server, rather than onto the > > clients? That would probably be faster, and avoid sillyrename. > > Yes, of course. This has been our intent all along. I don't think you will get sillyrename files by operating only on the server. A quick scan of the Linux 2.4.18 kernel source shows that sillyrename is only done in the client, which agrees with my understanding of the role they play in NFS. So the whole discussion is moot. -- Martin -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
