I have attached a patch that supports a new --direct-write option.
The result of using this option is to write directly to the destination
files, instead of a temporary file first.
The reason this patch is needed is for rsyncing to a device where the
device is full or nearly full.
Say that I
Oh boy, I think you're getting into quite a can of worms there.
At a minimum this option should imply the --partial option because if the
operation is aborted the file will be left partially transferred. Note
that if you're trying to use the rsync rolling checksum algorithm to
minimize
Perhaps, all that I need is a --delete-before-update option that just unlinks the
file before it
starts to write the temp file. Then we avoid the possible issues that you raised.
I can still see a case where --direct-write may be useful (read-write file in a
read-only dir), but
this is
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 11:50:01AM -0800, Don Mahurin wrote:
Perhaps, all that I need is a --delete-before-update option that just
unlinks the file before it starts to write the temp file. Then we avoid the
possible issues that you raised. I can still see a case where
--direct-write may be
