Hi folks, I've been googling around for awhile but I can't seem to find
an answer to my question.
I have a number of filesystems that contain thousands of hard links due
to some bad organization of data. Rsync, cpio and various other
utilities fail to copy this data because I think there might b
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 05:06:56PM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote:
> It would be better [...] to only remove the items that are
> extraneous, so that unchanged xattrs don't flicker.
OK, I just committed a change to CVS that removes the extraneous
values after the setting of the new values has finished
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 04:57:09PM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote:
> That looks like it should do the job, and is a nice improvement over
> what is there now.
One more thing -- the one thing that I don't like about this patch is
that it can momentarily tweak an existing file to remove all its xattrs,
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 11:41:46AM +0100, Stanis?aw Gruszka wrote:
> patch is for rsync cvs sources after appling acls.diff and xattrs.diff
> patches. Please comment or include it upstream.
Thanks for your patch. That looks like it should do the job, and is a
nice improvement over what is there n
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 04:29:36PM -0600, Phil Howard wrote:
> So, how can I get rsync to syncronize the _content_ of the device
> with the _content_ of the source file (or source device)?
You can't without writing custom code -- for instance, adding an option
to rsync to tell it to treat a block
I have repeatable cases where a (very large) file contents are the
intended content of a device (partition) of that exact size. The
target device is already mostly of that content, but a few block
have been changed. I want to restore the device contents back to
what the file originally was. I'm
