Hi.
I noticed, when using --inplace and --sparse to update a file of 36 G located in an NFS mounted directory from a NetApp NAS through NFS, that rsync is rewriting most of it: 27 G, while rsync (--stats) indicates a literal data of only 262,144 bytes. This do not happens with --inplace without --sparse: only ~204 K are written, according to the size of a snapshot made before updating with rsync. Is it a known issue when combining --inplace and --sparse or is it due to the file contents or NFS ? Thanks. I'm fine to do the initial copy with '--inplace --sparse' and the subsequent incremental ones with only --inplace. The NAS will anyway deduplicate zero-blocks after the copies. Context: OS: Fedora-32 running kernel-5.7.8-200.fc32.x86_64 NFS3 rsync-3.2.3-1.fc32.x86_64 -- Francis -- 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
