Re: Lower-case filenames on receiver side
On 9 Apr, 2008, at 03:20 , Matt McCutchen wrote: I would suggest tinkering with the shortname mount option of the FAT partition and using the --ignore-case rsync option added by this patch: http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/patches/ignore-case.diff I tried to patch but that alone does not seem to do it. I should try the shortname mount option but at the moment i'd rather not play with that machine's mounts... OS X does not seem to offer that option so i can't try with my external drive (FAT32 too). Is the --ignore-case option going to be included at some point in the future? Thanks a lot for the help Marco -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Re: Lower-case filenames on receiver side
Thanks for your answer, i just learned case-preserving and case- sensitive are two different things... The source partition on my mac is case sensitive the problem is probably the target FAT partition on linux. Now that i think of it, my other backup that goes to an ext3 partition on the same machine does not have this problem. It's still strange that for all other files in the same sync it works fine... Thanks for your answers Marco On 8 Apr, 2008, at 16:33 , Kyle Lanclos wrote: You are going from a case-insensitive filesystem (HFS or HFS+) to a case-sensitive one on the Linux host. If the Mac is inconsistent about how it reports the filename, I can see how you might have problems like what you describe. I am not intimately familiar with problems of this type, as I stay away from case-insensitive filesystems as much as possible. While the inconsistent behavior is strange, I wouldn't be surprised if the root cause is buried somewhere in Apple's filesystem code. --Kyle On 8 Apr, 2008, at 16:34 , Wayne Davison wrote: On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 10:16:05AM +0200, Marco Bridge wrote: I mean, rsync seems to be arbitrarily changing filenames No, rsync doesn't change filesnames at all. You should be looking for external reasons for the inconsistencies, such as inconsistent case in the source filename arguments (when combined with a case-ignoring filesystem), the copying from a case-honoring filesystem to a case-ignoring filesystem with overlapping directory names, and/or behind-the-scenes filesystem re-mapping of names. ..wayne.. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Lower-case filenames on receiver side
Hi everybody, i've been using rsync for quite some time to sync files between my laptop and my desktop for example i use the following to backup the music library (from Mac to Linux) rsync -rvzu --exclude=.DS_Store --delete --exclude 'Podcasts/*' $LOCAL_MUSI $REMOTE_MUSIC $LOGFILE An odd thing i always noticed is that some files were always copied, even running the above command 2 times consecutively. This was happening only for about 30 files in a library of 3000+ songs and with some pdf documents, so it seemed just some weirdness in the files. However i just noticed something interesting from today's log, there seems to be something wrong with the capitalization of some filenames deleting acdc/Back In Black/Back In Black.mp3 deleting acdc/Back In Black/ deleting Pink Floyd/The division Bell/Cluster one.mp3 deleting Pink Floyd/The division bell/Keep tolking.mp3 deleting Pink Floyd/The division bell/A great day for freedom.mp3 ... ACDC/Back In Black/ ACDC/Back In Black/Back In Black.mp3 Pink Floyd/The division Bell/A great day for freedom.mp3 Pink Floyd/The division Bell/Keep tolking.mp3 Pink Floyd/The division bell/Cluster one.mp3 The folder 'ACDC/' is copied to the other computer as 'acdc/' for this reason the next time it will be deleted and re-sent. in the Pink Floyd case, look at how the 'B' in 'Bell' changes In this case the folder name seems to be ok on the receiver side, but rsync deletes the entire folder anyway. Notice that there are many other file in my library with mixed upper and lower-case names (also full upper/lower-case) and they're not affected. What could be causing that? Best regards Marco More info *Source Filesystem: Mac OS Extended Macintosh, OSX 10.5 Leopard rsync version 2.6.3 protocol version 28 Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks, batchfiles, inplace, IPv6, 32-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums *Destination Ubuntu Linux 7.10 Filesystem: vfat (fat32) rsync version 2.6.9 protocol version 29 Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks, batchfiles, inplace, IPv6, ACLs, 64-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
