https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13735
--- Comment #1 from Kevin Korb <rs...@sanitarium.net> --- Yes, a user can back-date the mtime on a file. This is what rsync does when it copies a file then copies the timestamp. Your suggestion of a better --checksum option is an interesting idea but so far we don't even have a --checksum that behaves even as intelligently as the man page describes it. Try rsycing a big tree to an empty dir with --checksum. According to the man page --checksum shouldn't matter but you will see that it checksums files when it has nothing to compare them to. It should skip checksumming files that have no match. It should also skip checksumming files that don't have matching file sizes but it doesn't. This is why I say that --checksum is almost always a bad idea. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the QA Contact for the bug. -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
