On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 02:43:50PM -0400, Lee Cullens wrote: > The most logical place to ask this question is this rsync forum, but > no one has yet even acknowledged the issue.
I was hoping that a MacOS user would respond and help you out since this issue appears to be specific to MacOS. As for why the rename is happening, that's how rsync updates all the files (unless overridden via options) -- it creates a new version and renames it over the old version. The main reason for this is because of how the rsync algorithm works, but it is also a very safe idiom in that any process that has the file open (such as when a program is using the binary as read-only swap) is not disrupted as it would be if new data was simply written out to the old inode. I assume the root issue has to do with something non-Posix going on with the files in that directory, but I don't know enough about MacOS to be able to speculate about what that might be. ..wayne.. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html