Re: change of behaviour on rsync -R and top level symlinks?

2010-06-16 Thread Francis . Montagnac
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:58:36 PDT Marc MERLIN wrote: The /data symlink is clobbered and replaced by a directory. Very bad! Any idea what's going on here and is there a magic flag to work around this problem? I thing you simply need the --no-implied-dirs flag. Francis -- Please use

RE: rsync solaris 10 Value too large

2010-06-16 Thread Satish Shukla
Hi, I am not sure if that helps but with GCC you can use the following flags, I had a similar problem using another tool but recompilation with following solved the problem. This is standard GNU error not related to rsync. -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -DLITTLE_ENDIAN Regards,

Re: change of behaviour on rsync -R and top level symlinks?

2010-06-16 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 09:11:57AM +0200, francis.montag...@sophia.inria.fr wrote: On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:58:36 PDT Marc MERLIN wrote: The /data symlink is clobbered and replaced by a directory. Very bad! Any idea what's going on here and is there a magic flag to work around this

Re: change of behaviour on rsync -R and top level symlinks?

2010-06-16 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 01:09:07PM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 09:11:57AM +0200, francis.montag...@sophia.inria.fr wrote: On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:58:36 PDT Marc MERLIN wrote: The /data symlink is clobbered and replaced by a directory. Very bad! Any idea

Re: How dangerous is --inplace

2010-06-16 Thread Carlos Carvalho
A B (gentosa...@gmail.com) wrote on 16 June 2010 23:16: How dangerous is acctually the --inplace option if you want to run rsync to update files that are only read and not written to? If they're not written to they don't change so that they don't need to be updated :-) What is the worst that