RE: Musing on: Detect renamed files and handle by renaming instead ofdelete/re-send

2005-03-14 Thread Andrew Gideon
Eli wrote: > Andrew wrote: >> Is there some philosophical or practical reason why rsync >> cannot use some persistent external database to map remote >> inodes to local inodes? > > No idea if this is done or not, but couldn't inodes be recycled if a file > is > deleted and the inode marked free?

RE: Musing on: Detect renamed files and handle by renaming instead ofdelete/re-send

2005-03-03 Thread Eli
Andrew wrote: > Is there some philosophical or practical reason why rsync > cannot use some persistent external database to map remote > inodes to local inodes? No idea if this is done or not, but couldn't inodes be recycled if a file is deleted and the inode marked free? Then the error of renam