rsync is concatenating the files together

[Werner]

I am seeing a really odd problem with Rsync 2.6.2 and 2.6.3.  I am trying to

rsync a directory containing some 2gb files from a Solaris 9 NFS server to
a Solaris 10b69 NFS client.  Rsync is running on the Solaris 10 client.

Here is the source directory as seen from the client:
Source directory:
-rwxr--r--   1 root  priv     1270666114 Jan  3  2004 FLY.GHO*
-rwxr--r--   1 root  priv     1595131867 Nov 11  2003 LB.GHO*
-rwxr--r--   1 root  priv     263738235 Jan  3  2004 PHANT001.GHS*
-rwxr--r--   1 root  priv     2147482739 Jan  3  2004 PHANTXP.GHO*
-rwxrw-r--   1 root  priv     1489966355 Dec 24  2003 ROVER.GHO*
-rwxr--r--   1 root  priv     2147482481 Jan  3  2004 TOSH.GHO*
-rwxr--r--   1 root  priv     2147480582 Jan  3  2004 TOSH0001.GHS*
-rwxr--r--   1 root  priv     2070930486 Jan  3  2004 TOSH0002.GHS*

Using 2.6.2 with -a -H -S -v
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     other        512 Nov 11 16:58 ./
drwxr-xr-x  16 root     root         512 Nov 10 20:53 ../
-rwx------   1 root     root     6366602929 Nov 11 17:06 .TOSH.GHO.lRaGei*
-rwxr--r--   1 root  priv     1270666114 Jan  3  2004 FLY.GHO*
-rwxr--r--   1 root  priv     1595131867 Nov 11  2003 LB.GHO*
-rwxr--r--   1 root  priv     263738235 Jan  3  2004 PHANT001.GHS*
-rwxr--r--   1 root  priv     2147482739 Jan  3  2004 PHANTXP.GHO*
-rwxrw-r--   1 root  priv     1489966355 Dec 24  2003 ROVER.GHO*

Look at the size of the .TOSH.GHO.lraGei file!  It's a concatenation of the
three TOSH files from the source tree!  At this point, rsync hangs when
it reaches the end of the TOSH0002.GHS file.

Using 2.6.3 with -a -H -S --inplace -v
-rwxr--r--   1 root  priv     1270666114 Jan  3  2004 FLY.GHO*
-rwxr--r--   1 root  priv     1595131867 Nov 11  2003 LB.GHO*
-rwxr--r--   1 root  priv     263738235 Jan  3  2004 PHANT001.GHS*
-rwxr--r--   1 root  priv     2147482739 Jan  3  2004 PHANTXP.GHO*
-rwxrw-r--   1 root  priv     1489966355 Dec 24  2003 ROVER.GHO*
-rwxr--r--   1 root  priv     2147482481 Jan  3  2004 TOSH.GHO*
----------   1 root     root     4218739196 Nov 11 17:20 TOSH0001.GHS

Now I tried 2.6.3 with the --inplace option.  Interestingly enough, it
copied
the TOSH.GHO file over, then concatenated TOSH0001.GHS and THS0002.GHS into
TOSH0001.GHS on the receiving file system.  At this point, rsync hung again.

The problem seems to be somewhat random, as it happened several times with
the 
PHANT* files, but it eventually copied them properly, after several
attempts.

I'm wondering perhaps if this is more a Solaris 10b69 bug than an rsync bug?
Any thoughts on this?