Sorry to waste your time - I will stop using rsync

[eric whiting]

Trevor Marshall wrote:
> 
> Lets see, oh... /proc/version
> "Linux version 2.4.10-4GB (root at Pentium.suse.de) (gcc version 2.95.3
> 20010315 (SuSE)) #1"

We had a lot of bad luck with that kernel (suse 7.3 right?) -- but it
was mainly resierfs/nfs issues (links garbled, nfs hangs, filesystem
issues). We couldn't use that kernel on any of our active production
boxes. 

I'd suggest trying a newer kernel. 2.4.18 has been a pretty good one.

eric