On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 11:19:25PM +0000, Andrew Liles wrote: > Second: assume a file has an identical file size then rsync must > examine the file to see if it is the same. It does, in essence, by > doing a checksum on the file;
This is not correct. The default "is unchanged" algorithm uses just the size and the modify-time of the files, so it only needs to stat the files. If you specify -c, rsync checksums _all_ the files. There are also other options to modify how rsync decides a file is unchanged (e.g. -I and --size-only), but these are specialty options that are not typically used. ..wayne.. -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
