Re: patch draft for extended attributes on linux

2003-06-24 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 01:50:59PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > On 24 Jun 2003, jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't much care for sending the xattrs as part of the file list. > > Even the 4KB ext[23] _currently_ limit it to is huge. > > I'm not sure what is typical here. The situatio

Re: patch draft for extended attributes on linux

2003-06-24 Thread Martin Pool
On 24 Jun 2003, jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That lack of an mtime for xattr could well cause > difficulties for backup systems as well. Perhaps a note to > the filesystems people is in order. The problem is that you > can't use mtime for these. It really needs its own > timestamp, pe

Re: patch draft for extended attributes on linux

2003-06-24 Thread Martin Pool
On 24 Jun 2003, jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't much care for sending the xattrs as part of the file list. > Even the 4KB ext[23] _currently_ limit it to is huge. I would have preferred to do it doing the regular transfer, rather than in the file list, but that seemed to make it a

Re: patch draft for extended attributes on linux

2003-06-24 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:34:38AM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > This draft patch adds support for transferring extended attributes > with a new --xattr option. It ought to work on Linux with XFS or > ext2/ext3 filesystems with the SGI/bestbits attribute system. > > It is partially working, but the

patch draft for extended attributes on linux

2003-06-24 Thread Martin Pool
This draft patch adds support for transferring extended attributes with a new --xattr option. It ought to work on Linux with XFS or ext2/ext3 filesystems with the SGI/bestbits attribute system. It is partially working, but there seems to be some kind of hang bug while transferring the file list.

Re: Status of --files-from flag

2003-06-24 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 05:04:25PM -0700, Gregory Brauer wrote: > > I noticed some discussion from a while back of adding a > --files-from flag to rsync that would allow an explicit > file list to be fed to rsync as to what files it should > check. What is the status of that discussion? The --fi

Status of --files-from flag

2003-06-24 Thread Gregory Brauer
I noticed some discussion from a while back of adding a --files-from flag to rsync that would allow an explicit file list to be fed to rsync as to what files it should check. What is the status of that discussion? If I try to specifiy a file list with --include-from that is about 100,000 files lon

Re: delete exclusion

2003-06-24 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 04:47:37PM -0700, Gregory Brauer wrote: > jw schultz wrote: > >On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 04:29:47PM -0700, Gregory Brauer wrote: > > > >>Is it possible to use rsync to mirror a group of files, deleteing > >>most files from the mirror when they disappear from the source, > >>bu

Re: delete exclusion

2003-06-24 Thread Gregory Brauer
jw schultz wrote: On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 04:29:47PM -0700, Gregory Brauer wrote: Is it possible to use rsync to mirror a group of files, deleteing most files from the mirror when they disappear from the source, but not deleting a certain set of files that match a pattern if they disappear from th

Re: delete exclusion

2003-06-24 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 04:29:47PM -0700, Gregory Brauer wrote: > > Is it possible to use rsync to mirror a group of files, deleteing > most files from the mirror when they disappear from the source, > but not deleting a certain set of files that match a pattern if > they disappear from the source

delete exclusion

2003-06-24 Thread Gregory Brauer
Is it possible to use rsync to mirror a group of files, deleteing most files from the mirror when they disappear from the source, but not deleting a certain set of files that match a pattern if they disappear from the source? Thanks. Greg Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe or change option

Re: various "rsync: connection unexpectedly closed" errors on debian

2003-06-24 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 01:03:43AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > jw schultz wrote: > > >On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 11:12:56PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > When I sync'ed against other servers, my rsync client process always > ran without --compress. Nevertheless, I've trie

Re: [patch] Basic HTTP Proxy Authentication

2003-06-24 Thread Alvaro Figueroa
On 2002-Apr-04 at 02:24:41 -0800, Bardur Arantsson wrote: > I have put together a patch for supporting "Basic" HTTP Proxy > Authentication. The patch changes the interpretatio of the RSYNC_PROXY > environment variable so that the syntax > > user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:port > > may be used instead of

Re: various "rsync: connection unexpectedly closed" errors on debian

2003-06-24 Thread wearitdown
jw schultz wrote: On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 11:12:56PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I sync'ed against other servers, my rsync client process always ran without --compress. Nevertheless, I've tried increasing verbosity by 3, and this is what I get: Check the rsync log file. Tha

Re: doc for --compare-dest could be clearer

2003-06-24 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 11:12:03PM -0400, Stephen Gildea wrote: > I have a suggestion for how to make the documentation of rsync's > "--compare-dest" option clearer. > > Maybe it would be clearer if I had some problem this option would solve, > but as it is, I couldn't figure it out from the manua