Bug#495594: rsync: unexpected behavior when transferring files to vfat filesystem

2008-09-10 Thread Paul Slootman
On Mon 18 Aug 2008, Joseph Rawson wrote: I just used rsync -av to transfer some files to a vfat partition today, and I was surprised that the files failed to transfer. I do understand that I shouldn't really be using the -a option to transfer the files. On earlier kernels, this was never

Bug#495594: rsync: unexpected behavior when transferring files to vfat filesystem

2008-09-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-09-10 15:19 +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: On Mon 18 Aug 2008, Joseph Rawson wrote: I just used rsync -av to transfer some files to a vfat partition today, and I was surprised that the files failed to transfer. I do understand that I shouldn't really be using the -a option to

Bug#495594: rsync: unexpected behavior when transferring files to vfat filesystem

2008-09-10 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 10 Sep 2008, Sven Joachim wrote: I've been trying to reproduce this (on a 2.6.26 kernel), and haven't had any problems. Perhaps you could show exactly what happens? Note that 2.6.26 doesn't report an error when you try to chmod(2) or chown(2) files on VFAT filesystems, unlike

Bug#495594: rsync: unexpected behavior when transferring files to vfat filesystem

2008-09-10 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Wednesday 10 September 2008 09:43:13 you wrote: On 2008-09-10 15:19 +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: On Mon 18 Aug 2008, Joseph Rawson wrote: I just used rsync -av to transfer some files to a vfat partition today, and I was surprised that the files failed to transfer. I do understand that

Bug#495594: rsync: unexpected behavior when transferring files to vfat filesystem

2008-08-18 Thread Joseph Rawson
Package: rsync Version: 3.0.3-2 Severity: important I just used rsync -av to transfer some files to a vfat partition today, and I was surprised that the files failed to transfer. I do understand that I shouldn't really be using the -a option to transfer the files. On earlier kernels, this