On 2020-07-06 12:40 -0700 Perry Hutchison wrote: > we either need to read the part of the output file that > we're about to seek over -- and overwrite anything that reads back > non-zero with zeros
The files that give verification errors are just small text files with no null bytes. The sparse code shouldn't even be activated. > or we need to temporarily turn off --sparse when the output > file already exists. That would seem to defeat the purpose of using --sparse --inplace I received no other responses, but this seems to be a clear bug (unless I'm missing something), so I'll submit the report on the issue tracker. -- Scott -- 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