Darryl Dixon wrote: > > Hi All, > > I've browsed the history of the list, but can't seem to find > an answer to something that I find quite surprising - why > isn't --numeric-ids the default when rsync is told to > preserve permissions? It seems to me that the current > behaviour runs against the grain of more than a quarter > century of unix tradition, and certainly caught me by > surprise the first time I encountered it. Can anyone enlighten me? > > regards, > Darryl Dixon > Winterhouse Consulting Ltd > http://www.winterhouseconsulting.com
If you have (mostly) the same set of users (names) on two different systems, what are the odds that the numeric ids are 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
