rsync: transmitting always whole files

[Martin Pool]

On 15 Mar 2002, "Schulz, Frank" <FSchulz at mbisoftware.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I use rsync in the following way to update some remote files over a low
> bandwidth line:
>    rsync -v -r -z -t -p <local dir> <user>@<host>:<dir on host>
> After updating from rsync 2.5.2 to 2.5.4 I noticed that modified files are
> always copied completely. The problem seems to be related to the new (in
> 2.5.3) option -no-whole-file. The global variable whole_file is initialized
> to -1 in options.c. In server_options() (options.c) it is set to zero if the
> original value has not been changed. A value of zero on whole_file is not
> transmitted to the remote rsync however.
> So the remote rsync has -1 instead of zero on its whole_file variable. To
> fix the problem I applied the following patch that forwards --no-whole-file
> to the remote side if whole_file has a value of zero:

Thanks.

I think that particular fix would break interoperability with servers
that did not have --no-whole-file, but I've put in something that I
think is equivalent.

Regards,
-- 
Martin