"A month of sundays ago Dave Dykstra wrote:"
> a small modification to the rsync source. You could delete the check
> for !S_ISREG in generator.c where it prints "skipping non-regular file",
There's one in skip_file.
That takes notice of "always_checksum" if it's a regular file.
Fine. I don't care. I want this either way. Removed.
There's another in recv_generator. That's whre it prints skipping .
Removed.
There's another a few lines further along.
Seems to be the compare_dest case, not sure what it's checking.
Removed as I don't care.
And another after a few more lines .. more removal.
Fortunately I'm only interested in a really trivial case!
> make the rsync destination be the temporary file on a regular file
> filesystem, and use --compare-dest to get rsync to compare to your target
> partition (assuming the temporary file doesn't exist before you begin).
Can you point me at how to achieve overwriting instead of going to a
temporary file? Is it in receiver.c? receive_data()? It seems to rely
on write_file(). But the fd is already open by the time we get there.
Can you give me an idea of the call sequence?
Peter
