checksum

[mario at bortal.de]

> On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 06:47:34PM +0100, mario at bortal.de wrote:
>> Does the -t option use a checksum at all?
>
> No, but rsync does -- as I just said, rsync automatically does a
> whole-file checksum of every transferred file to ensure that it was
> transferred correctly.  This always happens.

Nice indeed! :)

I dont wanna piss you off, but is this documented in detail somewhere? ;)


>
>> The --checksum options creates checksums file-blocks, but not of the
>> whole file, right?
>
> No.  The --checksum option is an extra, pre-transfer, whole-file test
> for changedness that is used instead of -t to decide what files to send
> (and thus slows rsync down considerably).

ok.

Cheers, Mario