On Thu, 15 Jun 2017 13:23:44 +0000
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> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12819
> 
> --- Comment #7 from Ben RUBSON <ben.rub...@gmail.com> ---

> Note that my patch simply adds a sync() just after recv_files(), so
> one sync() per connection, not per write operation.

> But we could make this a rsync option, so that one can enable /
> disable it on its own.

I think the "right" rsync option to add (because rsync does
not have enough options already ;-) is a --hook-post option.
It would run something (a `sync` in your case) on the
remote end after finishing.  There are clear security issues
here.

Rather than having --hook-post and having to do something
(a server side config option that says what --hook-post
can do?) to address the security concerns it seems much
simpler to improve the rsync documentation regarding running
the rsync server side.

I'm still using command="rsync --server --daemon ." in my
~/.ssh/authorized_keys file on the remote end.  It'd be simple 
enough to add, say, a "sync" to the end of this to force a sync
when rsync finishes.  The problem is that the --server (and, especially,
--daemon) documentation has gone away.  Or at least
left the man page. (v3.1.1, Debian 8, Jessie)  Except
for a hint that --server exists at the bottom.

If the server side of rsync was better documented then
perhaps a simple inetd rsync service (or --rsync-path
or -e value, etc.) would be easy for the end-user to 
cobble together to meet needs such as this.

Can somebody please explain --server?  (And --sender, I guess.)
I might (possibly) be motivated to send in a man page patch.

Regards,

Karl <k...@meme.com>
Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
                 -- Robert A. Heinlein

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