rsync doesn't checksum for local transfers?
Kevin Korb
kmk at sanitarium.net
Wed Dec 3 19:37:34 MST 2014
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You are missing the point of the checksum. It is a verification that
the file was assembled on the target system correctly. The only
post-transfer checksum that would make any sense locally would be to
make sure that the disk stored the file correctly which would require
a flushing of the cache and a re-reading of the file. Rsync has no
capability to do this whether remote or not.
On 12/03/2014 09:17 PM, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
> Hello. Please see http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/66702. I would
> like to have confirmation whether or not rsync verifies the
> transferred files' integrity at the target location by checksumming
> as advertised in the manpage:
>
> """Note that rsync always verifies that each transferred file was
> correctly reconstructed on the receiving side by checking a
> whole-file checksum that is generated as the file is
> transferred"""
>
> The word "always" here seems to indicate that the integrity check
> will happen whether for local or network transfers, but the above
> Stack Exchange post claims otherwise. Please clarify.
>
> Also, once it is assured that the check will happen *really*
> "always", it would be useful to advertise the fact about the
> integrity check in the website and description part of the manpage
> itself IMO.
>
> FWIW I'm using rsync 3.1.1 (latest) on openSUSE Tumbleweed.
>
> Thanks.
>
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