preserve EA?

[Ming Zhang]

On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 16:32 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> On 5/9/07, Ming Zhang <blackmagic02881 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > side question, if i know one file only have EA changed, thus mtime is
> > updated, can i force the rsync to do EA update only? regular rsync run
> > will do checksum stuff if mtime changed, and find out all content are
> > same which generate too many computation overheads.
> 
> Yes, you can use --size-only, which makes rsync assume that
> corresponding files with the same size don't need the contents
> transferred.

cool. thx!

> 
> Matt