rsycnc copies all files

[Wayne Davison]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 09:51:42PM +0100, Gareth wrote:
> I notice that appends to text files results in the whole file being
> transferred (as recorded by 'Total bytes written') rather than just
> the 9 characters I append to the file.

I assume you're doing a local-only transfer, which defaults to
--whole-file (which is more efficient on the disks than trying to
figure out what the differences would be).  If you want to force
the rsync algorithm to be used, specify --no-whole-file.

..wayne..