rsync wants to copy Identical directory structure and files.

[Brad Kroeger]

Hello,

I have two identical directories and when I run an rsync --dry-run on 
them rsync wants to transfer all the files from the source directory to 
the target directory.  I verified some files in both directories with 
'ls -l' and the output is the same which, if I understand correctly, 
means that rsync should not include the file in the list of files to 
transfer.  I also did an md5 check on source files and destination files 
and verified the output was the same.

I am attempting to verify if the source and destination directories are 
the same using rsync.  Perhaps there is a better way.

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rsync --verbose --dry-run --progress --stats --recursive --times --perms 
--links /misc/cosmos/srb/tape_vault/dtfMcat.orig 
/misc/samqfs/srbfs/srb/tape_vault/dtfMcat

shows 1150 different files including for example file :

dtfMcat.orig/SRBVault/srb.sdsc/95/7/TEST.Sget.c.1549896231.1070989901

But "cmp" and "ls" shows them as same!

orion-28% cmp 
/misc/cosmos/srb/tape_vault/dtfMcat.orig/SRBVault/srb.sdsc/95/7/TEST.Sget.c.1549896231.1070989901 
/misc/samqfs/srbfs/srb/tape_vault/dtfMcat/SRBVault/srb.sdsc/95/7/TEST.Sget.c.1549896231.1070989901

orion-29% ls -al 
/misc/cosmos/srb/tape_vault/dtfMcat.orig/SRBVault/srb.sdsc/95/7/TEST.Sget.c.1549896231.1070989901 
/misc/samqfs/srbfs/srb/tape_vault/dtfMcat/SRBVault/srb.sdsc/95/7/TEST.Sget.c.1549896231.1070989901
-r-x----w-   1 srb      srbdev     12385 Dec  9  2003 
/misc/cosmos/srb/tape_vault/dtfMcat.orig/SRBVault/srb.sdsc/95/7/TEST.Sget.c.1549896231.1070989901
-r-x----w-   1 srb      srbdev     12385 Dec  9  2003 
/misc/samqfs/srbfs/srb/tape_vault/dtfMcat/SRBVault/srb.sdsc/95/7/TEST.Sget.c.1549896231.1070989901

-Brad Kroeger