Re: Preliminary Suggestion For Atomic Transactions

2005-01-05 Thread Jeff Pitman
On Thursday 06 January 2005 07:04, Carson Gaspar wrote: > I have no objection to the option, just to the name - don't call > things atomic if they aren't. Call it delayed-rename, or whatever. How about --rename-after? -- -jeff -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman

Preliminary Suggestion For Atomic Transactions

2005-01-05 Thread Jeff Pitman
In the past there's been a need to provide consistency between symbolic links or repository metadata during a sync. Currently, rsync renames files piecemeal. The attached patch (extremely ugly) attempts to resolve this by foregoing the rename step until the end. It adds a new option (if we d