On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 17:31 -0300, Carlos Carvalho wrote: > From a quick look at generator.c it seems partial-dir applies only to > regular files (partialptr = NULL in line 1767), which means that > some/path/newdir/newfile is created at > some/path/newdir/<partial-dir-name>/newfile.
Correct. > It also appears that delay-updates only happens for regular files, and > other types are created immediately, right? Correct. I didn't realize that is the current behavior; I had assumed that since the purpose of --delay-updates is to make the visible change to the destination closer to atomic, it would affect all non-directories. I'll enter a bug for that if I get a chance. -- Matt -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html