On Apr 12, Wayne Davison wrote: | On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 12:46:55PM -0400, Christophe Kalt wrote: | > FWIW, I just upgraded to 2.6.4, and that has solved a problem | > i'd been having for a few weeks where 2.6.3 repeatedly failed | > to synchronize a 5GB file. Don't remember seeing anything in | > the NEWS or other making me think upgrading would help, but | > it did. | | Perhaps one of these? | | - Fixed a potential protocol-corrupting bug where the generator | could merge a message from the receiver into the middle of a | multiplexed packet of data if only part of that data had been | written out to the socket when the message from the generator | arrived. | | - Fixed a bug that would sometimes surface when using --compress | and sending a file with a block-size larger than 64K (either | manually specified, or computed due to the file being really | large). Prior versions of rsync would sometimes fail to | decompress the data properly, and thus the transferred file | would fail its verification.
This last one sounds right as i typically got verification failed messages. (The files did look identical.) -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
