On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 01:48 -0300, Carlos Carvalho wrote: > What's the purpose of --partial-dir then? I thought it was leaving the > partial transfer as path/partial/filename instead of > path/.filename.random. That's what it tried to do but this isn't fine > if it needs another move. If rsync is killed with STOP or the machine > crashes this partial will be lost? That doesn't look very useful.
It's fine and useful if rsync is killed with INT or TERM or hits a fatal error (e.g., dropped connection). I believe the reason why rsync doesn't create the file in the partial dir from the start is that it may be using an old partial file as a basis for a delta-transfer. Rsync can't just append to the old partial file because, in general, the beginning of the source file might have changed since the old partial file was created. > How can we make rsync put the partial in path/partial/filename during > the transfer? I think the current behavior is reasonable. You're always welcome to modify your own copy of rsync. -- Matt -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
