Re: --recursive and -H

2010-06-26 Thread Rob Thompson
Aaah, thanks for the insight. RSYNC must transfer the file regardless of the link count, but it also takes note of the missing link. So, it probably considers an inode with multiple links "resolved" only after it finds a brother/sister link and deletes the duplicate. This would be consiste

Re: --recursive and -H

2010-06-26 Thread Matthias Schniedermeyer
On 26.06.2010 09:01, Rob Thompson wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a question regarding using the --recursive option when > preserving hard link with -H. How is it, that these two options are > compatible when used together? I would think that RSYNC would need to > see all files/inodes before tr

Re: 3.1: bug in --stats

2010-06-26 Thread Wayne Davison
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Carlos Carvalho wrote: > 3.1, including the latest version, produces bogus ---stats output: [...] > Total file size: -6,417,895,484,864,819,269 bytes > This turned out to be an issue with with the F_LENGTH() accessor for a large file that had a nano-second modified

--recursive and -H

2010-06-26 Thread Rob Thompson
Hello, I have a question regarding using the --recursive option when preserving hard link with -H. How is it, that these two options are compatible when used together? I would think that RSYNC would need to see all files/inodes before transferring, to preserve hard links. But yet it still s