On 2026-06-06, dzwdz <[email protected]> wrote: > This is also confusing for downstream users of openrsync. Due to the > recent controversies surrounding upstream rsync, some people are moving > to openrsync explicitly to avoid using upstream rsync
openrsync is not a suitable replacement for standard use-cases of rsync. It was specifically written for rpki-client and misses things that were not needed for that. Apple have a heavily modified version of openrsync which is closer to being usable for standard cases, but it still has issues. In particular all openrsync versions only support the old pre-2008 rsync protocol version, which means that the full file list is transferred before sending files; with a large set of files that is significantly slower and takes many more resources on both sides than the incremental file list in newer protocol versions.
