Unnecessary directory listing.

Wayne Davison wayned at samba.org
Fri May 13 00:35:32 GMT 2005


On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 05:36:40PM +0200, Julian Pace Ross wrote:
> The problem is that since a couple of weeks ago, when running the
> script, I get a full list of the directories and not just the changed
> ones.

Rsync outputs the name of a directory when its modified time is being
updated, so something on one side of the connection or the other
apparently tweaked the directory's mtime.  If you upgrade to 2.6.4 (or,
better yet, 2.6.5pre1), you can specify -O to omit tweaking any dir
times.

..wayne..


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