[Bug 10312] New: Rsync times out during deletion on big folders

2013-12-07 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10312 Summary: Rsync times out during deletion on big folders Product: rsync Version: 3.0.9 Platform: x64 OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P5

Re: Moving/merging a filesystem back into /

2013-12-07 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Agreed. If your files are corrupt rsync and cp will have no way to know that. All they can do is copy the files that are there. Even with -c you are comparing the files on the source with the files on the target. If there aren't any files on the ta

Re: Moving/merging a filesystem back into /

2013-12-07 Thread Leen Besselink
On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 10:34:16AM -0500, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 2013-12-07 10:16 AM, Kevin Korb wrote: > >The only way cp is going to corrupt files is if you have bad RAM in > >the system and in that case rsync probably will too. > > I said that this person said that cp will silently copy CO

Re: Moving/merging a filesystem back into /

2013-12-07 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2013-12-07 10:16 AM, Kevin Korb wrote: The only way cp is going to corrupt files is if you have bad RAM in the system and in that case rsync probably will too. I said that this person said that cp will silently copy CORRUPTED files, not that it will silently CORRUPT files during the copy p

Re: Moving/merging a filesystem back into /

2013-12-07 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The only way cp is going to corrupt files is if you have bad RAM in the system and in that case rsync probably will too. On 12/07/13 10:14, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 2013-12-05 12:03 AM, Linda Walsh wrote: >> For a one time copy... 'cp' should work

Re: Moving/merging a filesystem back into /

2013-12-07 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2013-12-05 12:03 AM, Linda Walsh wrote: For a one time copy... 'cp' should work fine... Except that someone on the gentoo list claims that cp will silently copy corrupted files, but rsync will not... which is a pretty good reason to use rsync over cp (I was looking for specific reasons wh