https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3461
------- Comment #7 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-01-29 14:17 MST ------- (In reply to comment #6) > The traditional use of --temp-dir (I think) is for situations when the > receiving partition does not have enough free space to accomodate a temporary > copy of a large file. Quite so. Even removing the destination file before doing a copy to a temp-file name in the destination dir might duplicate the disk space if someone had the destination file open. A possible improvement for this option would be to set a minimum file-size that should use the temp-dir setting. This way rsync could update smaller files atomically, and only resort to using the temp-dir on another drive for really large files. Re: the patch in comment #5: it doesn't work for a space-conscious user that has set an absolute --partial-dir path (such as using the same directory as the --temp-dir setting), so the patch needs extra logic to ensure that the copy-into-a-partial-dir logic only triggers for relative paths (which is a simple, 1/2-line change). FYI, I checked in some doc-improvments for the --temp-file option. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.samba.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
