Large files and symlinks

[Donovan Baarda]

On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 06:53, jw schultz wrote:
[...]
> In many cases invoking --partial is worse than not.  If you
> are rsyncing a 4GB file and transfer is interrupted after
> 500MB has been synced you get a 500MB file which now has
> less in common with the source than the 4GB file did.  

A more useful behaviour for --partial would be to concatinate the
partial download to the end of the old "basis", rather than replace
it... this leaves you with a much more useful "partial" result to resume
from.

Of course this behaviour could be _very_ confusing to people... :-)

-- 
Donovan Baarda <abo at minkirri.apana.org.au>