question on reporting bytes transferred

Wayne Davison wayned at samba.org
Sat Oct 1 15:56:23 GMT 2005


Mario Tambos wrote:

> the summatory of the file's transferred bytes is 48542663. it doesn't 
> match the received bytes (about 8mb less)


That's because the summary total includes data that was sent outside of 
the file transfers, such as the data for the file list (which is 
probably the majority of that missing amount).  Run with --stats for a 
more info.

..wayne..


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