Behavioral differences between versions.

2010-07-21 Thread Jeff Cleverley
Greetings, We are upgrading systems in our lab from rhel4 to rhel5. We've noticed a number of differences in behavior while using the same arguments on the same data set. We get different sent and received counts. We also had one case with some data corruption that was only fixed after telling

Re: Behavioral differences between versions.

2010-07-22 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 21 Jul 2010, Jeff Cleverley wrote: > > 1. When using the -z option, does rsync actually use > /usr/bin/compress or does it use gzip? The man pages say it > compresses data but doesn't specify what it compresses with. It uses the gzip algorithm but implements it internally; it doesn't cal

Re: Behavioral differences between versions.

2010-07-22 Thread Jeff Cleverley
Paul, Thanks for the information. I'll see what I can find in the NEWS and OLDNEWS. Hopefully that will give me what I'm looking for on most of the questions. Am I correct in my assumption that Redhat does not tweak the rsync it ships with its distribution? Thanks, Jeff On Thu, Jul 22, 2010

Re: Behavioral differences between versions.

2010-07-22 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 12:42 -0600, Jeff Cleverley wrote: > Am I correct in my assumption that Redhat does not tweak the rsync it > ships with its distribution? The way to find out is to ask Red Hat or look in their SRPMs. Choose either client or server (they seem to be the same in this case--are

Re: Behavioral differences between versions.

2010-07-22 Thread Jeff Cleverley
Matt, Thanks for the information. I've found Red Hat often slow and difficult to get an answer from. I'll check the differences between the rhel4 and rhel5 versions in the SRPMs. I'll also check the bug tracking. I have found one issue I thought was probably just a change in behavior that was

Re: Behavioral differences between versions.

2010-07-22 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 21:50 -0600, Jeff Cleverley wrote: > I've found Red Hat often slow and difficult to get an answer from. That's not our problem. -- Matt -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/m