On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 14:18 +0000, Andrew Gideon wrote:
> It assumes that --inplace 
> actually does what it sounds like it does: it modifies only the disk 
> pages of a file that have changed, as opposed to changing the entire file 
> or creating a new file or some other thing which causes the file to 
> "move" on disk.

Yes, --inplace works that way:

http://gitweb.samba.org/?p=rsync.git;a=blob;f=receiver.c;h=965bb3909dc75d6b4ba675e201a64549ab8ac8dc;hb=HEAD#l295

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Matt

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