Hi All,
I have been reading about the HFS+ filesystem compression on Snow Leopard and
how copying or cloning over system files with rsync and other tools results in
them being expanded on destination. I was wondering if there was any thoughts
on updating rsync to accommodate this? It is kind of
Robert DuToit wrote:
> I have been reading about the HFS+ filesystem compression on Snow Leopard
> and how copying or cloning over system files with rsync and other tools
> results in them being expanded on destination. I was wondering if there
> was any thoughts on updating rsync to accommodate th
Hi Rob:
I posted a patch several months ago (October 28, to be specific) that
offers HFS+ compression support for rsync. It's OS-specific, so I don't expect
the rsync team to maintain the patch, but I'll be keeping it as up to date as I
can. Right now it's built and tested against rsy
Hi Mike,
Thanks so much
After some searching I just found the patch and built on 3.0.6 but got an error
on make after running fileflags.diff, crtimes.diff and your patch
perl ./mkproto.pl ./*.c ./lib/compat.c
In file included from ./rsync.h:971,
from ./rounding.c:20:
./proto.h
Hi Mike,
I guess I did something wrong or removing that line 283 in proto.h was critical
I ran fileflags and crtimes patches first and then
rsync_3.0.6-hfs-compression_20091027.diff but the test shows no go.
Sub-test: decmpfs xattr ... not preserved
Sub-test: UF_COMPRESSED flag ... not set
Th
