Re: [S3tools-general] empty directories not syncing - known issue

2014-03-12 Thread WagnerOne
Thank you, Matt. I appreciate this explanation from the s3cmd point of view. This improves my growing understanding of S3 and how to best work with it. Mike On Mar 11, 2014, at 8:44 PM, Matt Domsch wrote: > TL;DR: yes, it's known. No, it's not expected to get fixed soon, if ever. > --delete

Re: [S3tools-general] empty directories not syncing - known issue

2014-03-12 Thread WagnerOne
t s3 handles names that end with / > differently than names that are the same without the /. Could you have the > entry above and also store data in > > bucket.s3.com/four > > ? Only by experimenting could you determine that. > > > J. Merrill > > -Original

Re: [S3tools-general] empty directories not syncing - known issue

2014-03-12 Thread j . merrill
ket.s3.com/four ? Only by experimenting could you determine that. J. Merrill -Original Message- From: "WagnerOne" Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 9:32am To: S3tools-general@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [S3tools-general] empty directories not syncing - known issue Hi, I

[S3tools-general] empty directories not syncing - known issue

2014-03-11 Thread WagnerOne
Hi, I noticed empty directories on my source (not s3) side aren't making it to my target, s3 side. I searched the archives and saw this is a known issue. Is there a timeline for when this may be resolved? Also, what is the current behavior if I create the required empty directories in s3 manu

Re: [S3tools-general] empty directories not syncing - known issue

2014-03-11 Thread Matt Domsch
TL;DR: yes, it's known. No, it's not expected to get fixed soon, if ever. --delete-removed will ignore it on download too, and not delete any such local empty directory. S3 fundamentally is an object store, not a file system. At least that's how it was originally presented to be, and what s3cmd