Musing on: Detect renamed files and handle by renaming instead of delete/re-send

[Andrew Gideon]

samba-bugs at samba.org wrote:

> I'll leave this open for now as a suggestion for a more extensive rename
> detector.

Is there some philosophical or practical reason why rsync cannot use some
persistent external database to map remote inodes to local inodes?  Having
that information persist would make such a detector relatively
straightforward, I believe.

 - Andrew