What would cause an unexpected massive transfer

[Craig Barratt]

Harry Putnam writes:

> I've rsynced two directory structures back and forth a few times.
>
> [snip]
> 
> The file systems in volved are (xp)NTFS on one end and Fat32 on the
> external drive.

This is the DST problem with how Fat32 represents mtime.
Fat32 uses localtime, so the unix-derived (UTC) mtime with
Fat32 changes with DST.  Sad, huh?

See the excellent write-up by the late JW Schultz:

    http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg00995.html

Craig