On 6/26/2014 5:36 PM, samba-b...@samba.org wrote:
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10675Summary: rsyncing >2GB file onto fat32 partition should fail earlier Product: rsync Version: 3.1.0 Platform: x86 OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P5 Component: core AssignedTo: way...@samba.org ReportedBy: darko.vebe...@ijs.si QAContact: rsync...@samba.org i have noticed that while rsyncing (-av) a whole directory (from linux ext4) onto a fat32 filesystem on a usb disk there was a large >4GB file among the files to be copied. while rsync should fail immediately encountering such a job what really happened was strange: rsync continued to read all the other files in the job but nothing has been written to the usb disk anymore. i have noticed this since the i/o on my internal disk went to the max of 120 MB/s and the i/o on the usb disk stayed at 0. at that point i pressed ctrl-c and, remarkably late, got the corresponding error: rsync error: received SIGINT, SIGTERM, or SIGHUP (code 20) at rsync.c(632) [sender=3.1.0] rsync: write failed on "/media/luser/usbdisk/folder/dvd.iso": File too large (27) rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at receiver.c(389) [receiver=3.1.0] how to reproduce: format a usb disk with mkfs.vfat and try to rsync a directory containing some files plus a large file over the >2GB fat32 limit.
I don't think it's reasonable to expect rsync, or any other such tool, to include a database of all the quirks and limitations of all the different filesystems in existence, including all their different versions and options.
But it might be possible for rsync to fail earlier on this particular problem by just attempting to allocate the space when it fist goes to transfer the file, and aborting if that fails. It wouldn't know or care what kind of filesystem the destination has. It wouldn't fail at the beginning of the rsync job, just at the beginning of that file.
I don't know how to handle --inplace, just add space to the end of the file? -- bkw -- 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
