Re: problems encountered in 2.4.6

2001-05-31 Thread Remi Laporte
I've had rsync hangs when transferring hug filesystems (~80Gb) over network, but till i've suppress the -v option from my command line there's no hang anymore hang. The -v option under 2.4.6 is bugged, try to mutiplie v's and the hangs will increase too. ( rsync -axWP

Re: problems encountered in 2.4.6

2001-05-30 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 12:02:41PM -0500, Phil Howard wrote: Dave Dykstra wrote: On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 02:19:59PM -0500, Dave Dykstra wrote: ... Use the -W option to disable the rsync algorithm. We really ought to make that the default when both the source and destination are

Re: problems encountered in 2.4.6

2001-05-29 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 02:19:59PM -0500, Dave Dykstra wrote: ... Use the -W option to disable the rsync algorithm. We really ought to make that the default when both the source and destination are local. I went ahead and submitted a change to the rsync CVS to automatically turn on -W when

rsync 3 (was Re: problems encountered in 2.4.6)

2001-05-28 Thread John N S Gill
There is a feature I would like, and I notice that even with -c this does not happen, but I think it could based on the way rsync works. What I'd like to have is when a whole file is moved from one directory to another, rsync would detect a new file with the same checksum as an existing

problems encountered in 2.4.6

2001-05-25 Thread Phil Howard
I switched to 2.4.6 a while back, but have only been making heavy use of rsync the past couple of months, and have been running into a few problems that may be bugs. I looked at the bug tracker, but it was too cumbersome to use effectively. I don't know if these are real bugs or just

Re: problems encountered in 2.4.6

2001-05-25 Thread Phil Howard
Dave Dykstra wrote: 2 = When syncronizing a very large number of files, all files in a large partition, rsync frequently hangs. It's about 50% of the time, but seems to be a function of how much work there was

Re: problems encountered in 2.4.6

2001-05-25 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 04:33:28PM -0500, Phil Howard wrote: Dave Dykstra wrote: One possibility here is that I do have /var/run symlinked to /ram/run which is on a ramdisk. So the lock file is there. The file is there but it is empty. Should it have data in it? BTW, it was in

RE: problems encountered in 2.4.6

2001-05-25 Thread David Bolen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] writes: Dave Dykstra wrote: That's two different kinds of checksums. The -c option runs a whole-file checksum on both sides, but if you don't use -W the rsync rolling checksum will be applied. So the chunk-by-chunk checksum always is used w/o -W? I

Re: problems encountered in 2.4.6

2001-05-25 Thread Phil Howard
David Bolen wrote: The discovery phase will by default just check timestamps and sizes. You can adjust that with command line options, including the use of -c to include a full file checksum as part of the comparison, if for example, files might change without affecting timestamp or size.

RE: problems encountered in 2.4.6

2001-05-25 Thread David Bolen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] writes: Actually, the lack of -W isn't helping me at all. The reason is that even for the stuff I do over the network, 99% of it is compressed with gzip or bzip2. If the files change, the originals were changed and a new compression is made, and