-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 24/02/14 18:35, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 8:14 AM, OmegaPhil <omegap...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Other than ignoring the problem and using --inplace, it doesnt >> look like I can influence how rsync names its temporary files - >> is this worth a feature request? >> > > Outside of using --inplace, you can only request that rsync put its > temp files into a different directory (--temp-dir=FOO), but that > isn't that nice of an option to use if the temp-dir isn't on the > same filesystem as the destination dirs (since it's best to be able > to rename the files into place w/o copying). > > An option to change the prefix from "." to something else might be > reasonable. Or you could look at the get_tmpname() function in > receiver.c and tweak this line to use some other single character > (e.g. ':', '_', or whatever): > > fnametmp[length++] = '.'; > > That would allow you to do your copying w/o error at least. If you > want to make it longer than a single char, the code would need to > change to check if the extra chars would fit w/o overflow. > > ..wayne..
Thanks for this - I did test temp-dir previously but it didnt stop the temporary naming from being used so I ignored it - so you're suggesting to use a different filesystem as the temp directory location to get around the special naming? This would be fine for the rare reserved name but as you said, with much more common big files that would be a serious copying overhead. Currently rsync is managed by the package system, so I don't want to maintain a special compile just for this freak problem, but then I don't want to bother yourselves for a feature request that in reality boils down to one file out of over a million. I think I'll stick to inplace until I get more examples, and then make a feature request/hack myself. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Icedove - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTDj8RAAoJEBfSPH39wvOP16sP+wedVhwFKS+8w5OCM2JYFIvb yPSTJNWXjUSHWnCUX68keir/B0/Hp12TrMRsr6iW/SzqVv4CrwdrK9ieCnFQnMRz WzCPeyuSj1rIk9bEVHNPj2/VnQLYx64oZSqj3Ljmvjx4occfihay40nWmZGxZd00 lZ8p4JniCK/lXIGXD9zpkneXfn22hrf9XN9yuleQ/cTv3P33jNsCVfd2JfdcIn2b qwXC0InePRzNlwuA0KOGsKDsoyIGu4rmTa4hLJm/qdmjF/daqz5PL3zIxcZitVjX 1STVopwtUkDywFdqTcOzpAtFXOSxaIPeDb+v7efentCrgbVFwwvKOD2TpOOmz9k9 yGOOXu0VF39fKlBo00QCWuAAvyBndasWPYm1CuwdrY8HyDBuAQXOPz0zlE7xD0Fx ZrHn38g5VuM43ZBb770PegkdhUkmPE3ORjnjmyuC0POykUb5FCj8ASTWZuYCEln6 IA2Ga3OEki++G9SN2uYWrnrOraw3e0eCMCNUnJNSO2g7S9SPXaSzl/c7cp6h/H0U /ExANJrQyOFerjS+kmRMxbiaLu0pktI4iTc9Ek2rskDZSUrzl59yLbc27lWxvfHW 7rkzHETtLHRKufj3t7fsHUJDndFt+YlNlPMPMr4I9ZslN667ZLBRjsac00BgnoPk XhsSR5qbYJuRpE5vG3gj =a/Z3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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
