A question about rsync

[Tim Conway]

That is it.  The destination file is unaffected until rsync completes its 
replacement, then the directory entry is repointed at the new file and the 
reference to the old inode freed.

Tim Conway
Unix System Administration
Contractor - IBM Global Services
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conway at us.ibm.com





Hi:

I really want to know how rsync works.
Once it synchronize a file. Does rscync first create a temporary in the
remote machine first and then rename it? Or it direct write the difference
into the dest-file?

Could you please tell me what will happen to the dest-file when a rsync
process interrupted by some problems(network problem etc ...)?