Hi Koen,
Revising this bug:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=565202
As to the why: the -r code was not written to perform a 100% solid
comparison, its main purpose is to discover bit errors on the backup
medium.
The manpage already has something about this:
The -r option verifies the file contents of the files in the
archive against the files on the filesystem, but does not
cross-check details like permission bits on files, nor does it
cross-check that archived directories or other non-file entities
still exist on the filesystem.
but this warning should be extended I guess. A fix would be to stat()
the file on the filesystem when the file in the archive has 0 length.
Would it be possible to add that stat() as you mentioned initially? I can
package directly from Git when you have code ready.
This is the only bug open for afio, so it would nice to see it resolved,
Jari
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