Don Mahurin [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] writes:
> Perhaps, all that I need is a "--delete-before-update" option that
> just unlinks the file before it starts to write the temp file. Then
> we avoid the possible issues that you raised. I can still see a
> case where --direct-write may be useful (read-wri
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 11:50:01AM -0800, Don Mahurin wrote:
> Perhaps, all that I need is a "--delete-before-update" option that just
> unlinks the file before it starts to write the temp file. Then we avoid the
> possible issues that you raised. I can still see a case where
> --direct-write ma
Perhaps, all that I need is a "--delete-before-update" option that just unlinks the
file before it
starts to write the temp file. Then we avoid the possible issues that you raised.
I can still see a case where --direct-write may be useful (read-write file in a
read-only dir), but
this is proba
Oh boy, I think you're getting into quite a can of worms there.
At a minimum this option should imply the --partial option because if the
operation is aborted the file will be left partially transferred. Note
that if you're trying to use the rsync rolling checksum algorithm to
minimize bandwidth
