Rsync help needed...

[Wayne Davison]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 05:58:26AM -0800, lsk wrote:
> 2) And Matt could explain little more on what do you mean by "atomicity"

What he meant is that, without --inplace, rsync creates an updated file
and moves it into place, making the update atomic (i.e. none of the
destination files are ever in a partially-updated state).  When the
--inplace option is used, the updates are written directly to the
destination files, which can be a bad thing if someone is trying to
read the file at the same time.

..wayne..