why are these files being transfered

[jw schultz]

On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 01:29:32AM -0700, Harry Putnam wrote:
> jw schultz <jw at pegasys.ws> writes:
> 
> > Hmm, -a == -rlptgoD  could it be that the timestamp, owner,
> > group or perms differ?
> 
> No, thats not it (at least not all of it) I see the same behavior with
> rsync -rCv.  Only thing that comes close is `-rCcv'.  Even that
> transfers a few files that diff sees no difference in.

Read the section describing --times again.  I'd suggest you
look again at the "files" that -c found as differing and diff
did not.

> Is there a major difference between differences as reported by diff
> and what rsync does?  If we ignore timestamp, permissions and
> ownership.  And diff finds no difference between two files.  And I
> even went so far as to run md5sum on a couple.  With all that same
> ness, why would rsync mess with it?
> 
> Seems one should not need the -c flag if diff reports no difference,
> and the rsync commmand line is -r only.

Rsync does not compare contents before transfer unless -c is
used.  Without -c meta-data is the only means rsync uses to
determine what files have changed.

> But look at this:
> 
>   reader $ ls -l buf.t/UPDATE base.t/UPDATE 
>   -rw-rw-r--  1 reader   reader   2589 May 30 18:06 base.t/UPDATE
>   -rw-r--r--  1 reader   reader   2589 May 29 14:21 buf.t/UPDATE
> 
>   reader $ diff buf.t/UPDATE base.t/UPDATE 
>    <nothing>
> 
>  md5sum buf.t/UPDATE base.t/UPDATE 
>   050a08b8f8fc8b1debdcd387f9bdcc67  buf.t/UPDATE
>   050a08b8f8fc8b1debdcd387f9bdcc67  base.t/UPDATE
> 
>  rsync -nrCv buf.t/ base.t|wc -l
>     281
> 
> Running with -n so nothing actually happens.  And 281 files are
> processed 
> 
>   rsync -nrCv buf.t/ base.t|grep UPDATE
>   UPDATE
>   including UPDATE... Why?
> 
> Throwing in the -c (checksum checking) and it goes away.
> Since I've already dropped timestamp owner group access etc it seems
> rsync should leave this alone without the -c flag.

You dropped timestamp preservation but you didn't tell it to
ignore timestamps.


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