Re: rsyncing devices

2001-12-03 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 04:14:15PM +1100, Martin Pool wrote: > On 27 Nov 2001, Dave Dykstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can reproduce it, and I think you've stumbled on a significant bug. The > > problem is that rsync always assumes stat variable "st_rdev", which > > contains both the major

Re: rsyncing devices

2001-12-01 Thread Martin Pool
On 27 Nov 2001, Dave Dykstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can reproduce it, and I think you've stumbled on a significant bug. The > problem is that rsync always assumes stat variable "st_rdev", which > contains both the major and minor number, is always 4 bytes and is always > the same format o

Re: rsyncing devices

2001-11-27 Thread Dave Dykstra
I can reproduce it, and I think you've stumbled on a significant bug. The problem is that rsync always assumes stat variable "st_rdev", which contains both the major and minor number, is always 4 bytes and is always the same format on both sides. On the rsync I tried on Linux, it is 8 bytes, whe

rsyncing devices

2001-11-27 Thread Cheryl L. Southard
Hi All, I'm running rsync version 2.4.6 protocol version 24 on several Solaris 2.8 computers, and seversl RedHat Linux 7.2 computers. I have several character devices that I am rsyncing from my Solaris computer. Rsync works from one solaris to another solaris computer. But rsyncing these devic