Re: Rsync 2.6.7pre1 is now available

2006-02-09 Thread Mike Daws
On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 14:49 -0500, Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by Jamie Lokier on 2006/02/09 at 18:55 +] > > >I think the hyphen is out of place; it looks very wrong to my eye, but > >I'm not a grammarian so don't have a fine explanation. > > You're quite right ... "read in" should be

Re: Rsync 2.6.7pre1 is now available

2006-02-09 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 03:02:44PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: > --- rsync-2.6.7pre1.orig/rsync.yo > +++ rsync-2.6.7pre1/rsync.yo > @@ -1014,7 +1018,7 @@ > as it is sent to the destination machine, which reduces the amount of data > being transmitted -- something that is useful over a slow connec

Re: The ACL patch now patches autom4te.cache files!

2006-02-09 Thread Wayne Davison
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 06:11:01PM -0500, Matt McCutchen wrote: > However, the ACL patch tried to patch autom4te.cache files Oops! That was a weird side-effect of my adding extra features to my release script (which now makes use of the improved verify-patches script). Thanks for pointing that o

The ACL patch now patches autom4te.cache files!

2006-02-09 Thread Matt McCutchen
I'm trying out rsync 2.6.7pre1. Since the distributed patches now patch generated files, I thought I could simply extract, apply the ACL patch, configure, and make. However, the ACL patch tried to patch autom4te.cache files I didn't have because I didn't autoconf myself. I'm guessing this is an u

Re: does rsync support acl and xattr?

2006-02-09 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 21:30 +0100, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Does rsync support acl and xattr (as with acl and user_xattr mount options)? > > I saw some acl patches for rsync, so probably it's not officially > blessed yet. > > However, I didn't see any xattr patches - although some talks about

does rsync support acl and xattr?

2006-02-09 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Does rsync support acl and xattr (as with acl and user_xattr mount options)? I saw some acl patches for rsync, so probably it's not officially blessed yet. However, I didn't see any xattr patches - although some talks about it on the list go back into year 2003. So how it is with support f

Re: Rsync 2.6.7pre1 is now available

2006-02-09 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Jamie Lokier on 2006/02/09 at 18:55 +] >I think the hyphen is out of place; it looks very wrong to my eye, but >I'm not a grammarian so don't have a fine explanation. You're quite right ... "read in" should be two separate words as there should not be a hyphen between a verb

Re: information on identifying hard links to a file

2006-02-09 Thread Jamie Lokier
Wayne Davison wrote: > On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 03:04:17PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: > > compare inode and device number. When those are the same, the two files > > must be hardlinked. > > Also, rsync only considers files that have a link count larger than 1 > (see stat()'s st_nlink) since this a

Re: Rsync 2.6.7pre1 is now available

2006-02-09 Thread Jamie Lokier
Wayne Davison wrote: > > - (below) in order to have the rules that are read-in from the file > > + (below) in order to have the rules that are read in from the file > > I consider the original a good use of hyphenation to help distinguish > the phrase "are read-in from a file" (using the past-

Re: Rsync 2.6.7pre1 is now available

2006-02-09 Thread Wayne Davison
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 06:07:13PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: > Is the --ipv4, --ipv6 description twice in the manpage? Yes, once in the section on client options, and once in the section on daemon options. ..wayne.. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: Rsync 2.6.7pre1 is now available

2006-02-09 Thread Paul Slootman
Is the --ipv4, --ipv6 description twice in the manpage? The description is quite different, so I'm wondering whether it should be in a different context :-) Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org

Re: information on identifying hard links to a file

2006-02-09 Thread Wayne Davison
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 03:04:17PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: > compare inode and device number. When those are the same, the two files > must be hardlinked. Also, rsync only considers files that have a link count larger than 1 (see stat()'s st_nlink) since this allows it to ignore the vast major

Re: Rsync 2.6.7pre1 is now available

2006-02-09 Thread Wayne Davison
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 03:02:44PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: > -Note this this option typically achieves better compression ratios that can > +Note this this option typically achieves better compression ratios than can I also note that the first "this" should be "that". > -options that rsync mi

Re: Problems with high load

2006-02-09 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 09 Feb 2006, Matthias Blohm wrote: > We are having problems with a very high load at the time of an rsync is > running. > Sometimes if 2 or 3 Rsyncs are running simultanously on to the same machine > the load goes up on that machine to 10 or more. the datas will be synced in > about 2 or

Re: Rsync 2.6.7pre1 is now available

2006-02-09 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 08 Feb 2006, Wayne Davison wrote: > Rsync version 2.6.7pre1 is now available for release testing. Please > give it a try and send email to the regular mailing list with any > questions, comments, bug reports, etc. A couple of text improvements / typos that were sent to me... Paul Slootma

Re: information on identifying hard links to a file

2006-02-09 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 09 Feb 2006, yogesh kulkarni wrote: >Am presently working on rsync and would like to know >how does rsync identify hardlinks.I have gone through >the hlink.c file and have not really understood the >flow presented in the function.If anyone can provide >

Problems with high load

2006-02-09 Thread Matthias Blohm
Hi, Specs: rsync is running as root with prio: 0 Linux: Debian Kernel: 2.4.30 Rsync: rsync version 2.6.4 protocol version 29 We are having problems with a very high load at the time of an rsync is running. Sometimes if 2 or 3 Rsyncs are running simultanously on to the same machine the load goe

information on identifying hard links to a file

2006-02-09 Thread yogesh kulkarni
  hi,   Am presently working on rsync and would like to know   how does rsync identify hardlinks.I have gone through    the hlink.c file and have not really understood the    flow presented in the function.If anyone can provide    some more info on this please inform me.   

Re: Rsync 2.6.7pre1 is now available

2006-02-09 Thread Wayne Davison
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 01:10:30AM -0500, Dave Mielke wrote: > >The itemized output now uses 'S' for a special file instead of > >clumping them together with the 'D' for devices. > > Is this a Windows thing? Nope. On Posix systems, you need root privileges to create devices (character or block)

Re: exclude an excluded file from being deleted by --delete-excluded

2006-02-09 Thread Wayne Davison
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 05:35:11PM +1100, Craig Hammond wrote: > I have a particular directory in my exclude list, but I want it > excluded from --delete-excluded. Sure, that's easy enough using filter rules. Just add a protect filter rule to what you have now and rsync will protect any matching

Re: RSYNC via pipe/socket ?

2006-02-09 Thread devzero
hello matt, thank you for your reply. as is see, the method you describe is just "theoretical", because it won`t work due to buffering issue. furthermore, it still needs ssh or maybe another remote shell. i'd like to leave out ssh or probably any remote shell entirely because encryption is sl