superlifter design notes (OpenVMS perspective)

2002-07-22 Thread Lenny Foner
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 23:06:23 -0700 From: jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I find the use of funny chars (including space) in filenames offensive but we need to deal with internationalizations and sheer stupidity. Regard

superlifter design notes (was Re: Latest rZync release: 0.06)

2002-07-22 Thread Lenny Foner
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 15:15:29 +1000 From: Martin Pool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Swabbing to/from network endianness is very cheap. On 486s and higher it is a single inlined instruction and I think takes about one cycle. On non-x86 it is free. The cost is barely worth considering

strip setuid/setgid bits on backup (was Re: small security-related rsync extension)

2002-07-08 Thread Lenny Foner
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 21:18:18 +0800 From: Adrian Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If the sender's/receiver's cwd is guaranteed to be the root of the corresponding rsync'd hierarchies, then yes, relative paths would suffice. > > UPDATEfoo/ > CREATEfoo/bar1 > UP

Rsync: Re: patch to enable faster mirroring of large filesystems

2001-11-27 Thread Lenny Foner
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 15:34:15 -0600 From: Dave Dykstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ . . . ] No, the difficulty of turning on the optimization is irrelevant because the optimization is no longer in the current version of rsync. It is only needed to do the performance test whic

Rsync: Re: patch to enable faster mirroring of large filesystems

2001-11-27 Thread Lenny Foner
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:49:11 -0600 From: Dave Dykstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thank you very much for doing the test Alberto. I didn't have any set of files that large on which I could do a test, and as I said when I tested the worse case I could think of with my application I

What's the difference b/w these 2 commands?

2001-02-06 Thread Lenny Foner
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 14:26:19 -0600 From: Dave Dykstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From the man page: a trailing slash on the source changes this behavior to transfer all files from the directory src/bar on the machine foo into the /data/tmp/. A t

The "out of memory" problem with large numbers of files

2001-01-25 Thread Lenny Foner
While we're discussing memory issues, could someone provide a simple answer to the following three questions? (a) How much memory, in bytes/file, does rsync allocate? (b) Is this the same for the rsyncs on both ends, or is there some asymmetry there? (c) Does it matter whether pushing or pulli

Transfering File List

2001-01-05 Thread Lenny Foner
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 08:27:43 -0600 From: Dave Dykstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Dykstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 11:14:00PM +0100, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > >>>>> " " =

Transfering File List

2001-01-04 Thread Lenny Foner
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 10:22:38 -0600 From: Dave Dykstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I like that idea. I would call it "--only-from". One corner case to consider is: What happens when one of the pathnames in the list turns out to be a directory? My advice it to keep it absolutely as simple