Rsync write behaviour / efficiency

[Paul Slootman]

On Mon 07 Mar 2005, andy at neotitans.com wrote:
> 
> If, for example, you have a 500MB file (say an ISO) whose modification
> consists solely of a few bytes added on to the beginning of the file.
> 
> Will it create an entirely new 500MB file?  Or will it somehow know how to
> insert the bytes at the beginning of the remote file?

Inserting bytes at the beginning of a file can't be done, at least not
on unix-like systems. That can only be done by copying the file.


Paul Slootman