-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 You are missing the point of the checksum. It is a verification that the file was assembled on the target system correctly. The only post-transfer checksum that would make any sense locally would be to make sure that the disk stored the file correctly which would require a flushing of the cache and a re-reading of the file. Rsync has no capability to do this whether remote or not.
On 12/03/2014 09:17 PM, Shriramana Sharma wrote: > Hello. Please see http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/66702. I would > like to have confirmation whether or not rsync verifies the > transferred files' integrity at the target location by checksumming > as advertised in the manpage: > > """Note that rsync always verifies that each transferred file was > correctly reconstructed on the receiving side by checking a > whole-file checksum that is generated as the file is > transferred""" > > The word "always" here seems to indicate that the integrity check > will happen whether for local or network transfers, but the above > Stack Exchange post claims otherwise. Please clarify. > > Also, once it is assured that the check will happen *really* > "always", it would be useful to advertise the fact about the > integrity check in the website and description part of the manpage > itself IMO. > > FWIW I'm using rsync 3.1.1 (latest) on openSUSE Tumbleweed. > > Thanks. > - -- ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ Kevin Korb Phone: (407) 252-6853 Systems Administrator Internet: FutureQuest, Inc. [email protected] (work) Orlando, Florida [email protected] (personal) Web page: http://www.sanitarium.net/ PGP public key available on web site. ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlR/yO4ACgkQVKC1jlbQAQdevACgvdnZ0x6n0EjpAksx0rbrBSDr XxYAn3jCn3M04IAcZ7vbNIWKRz+5AxRe =wEBv -----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
