Re: Question about --partial-dir and aborted transfers of large files

2012-08-12 Thread T.J. Crowder
Hi, Thanks for that! On 12 August 2012 18:41, Wayne Davison wrote: > I have imagined making the code pretend that the partial file and any > destination file are concatenated together for the purpose of generating > checksums. That would allow content references to both files, but rsync > woul

Re: Question about --partial-dir and aborted transfers of large files

2012-08-12 Thread Wayne Davison
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Wayne Davison wrote: > I have imagined making the code pretend that the partial file and any > destination file are concatenated together for the purpose of generating > checksums. > Actually, that could be bad if the destination and partial file are both huge.

Re: Question about --partial-dir and aborted transfers of large files

2012-08-12 Thread Wayne Davison
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 9:03 AM, T.J. Crowder wrote: > 1. Am I correct in inferring that when rsync sees data for a file in the > --partial-dir directory, it applies its delta transfer algorithm to the > partial file? > 2. And that this is _instead of_ applying it to the real target file? (Not > a

Question about --partial-dir and aborted transfers of large files

2012-08-10 Thread T.J. Crowder
Apologies to the list, the title of this thread is completely wrong. It should be something like "Question about --partial-dir and aborted transfers of large files". Let's see if this mailing list program will allow me to change it... -- T.J. On 10 August 2012 15:28, T.J. Crowde