It doesn't fall over. I'm not sure if the file ends up corrupted
because there is code in rsync which does an overall checksum on what it
writes into the new copy of the file and appears to be intended to
trigger a resend if the checksum is not as expected. I've no idea if
the resending actually works or not.
Brian
James Jones wrote:
>
> I'm sorry -- this is so tedious. I know this question gets asked all
> the time but I can't find the relevant e-mails. So here goes with the
> lazy approach.
>
> What happens if a file changes as it is being copied by rsync?
> Does rsync fallover or is the file simply corrupted in transfer?
>
> Cheers and apologies,
>
> James
