afaik, rsync will copy the file (depends on the input arguments). and if rsync does support your example, it would alter the whole line.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How does rsync deal with insertions in the middle of a big file?
For example, assuming each letter below represents a block of data within a file, if the original file changed from:
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZA
to:
ABCDEFGHI123JKLMNOPQ456RSTUVWXYZA
Will rsync be efficient enough to just somehow
'insert' 123 and 456 within the file or will it
modify/try to backup all the blocks from 123 onwards?
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