--detect-renamed question

[Greg Siekas]

Matt,

Thanks.  I'll take a look at this starting next week.   I do realize  
this is very risky.  ;)

The other option I thought of was to only do the move when the mtime,  
size, and filename match.   Not really a 'detect-renamed' but a  
'detected-moved' type operation.

Greg

On Oct 12, 2007, at 9:55 AM, Matt McCutchen wrote:

> On 10/11/07, radius13a at mac.com <radius13a at mac.com> wrote:
>> I've started testing the detect-renamed patch with 2.6.9 and soon  
>> 3.0.0pre1.  I have an unique situation where I'm rsync'ing to a  
>> HSM based filesystem.  I've found that the detect-renamed patch  
>> works but it appears to do a copy of the file to the new  
>> destination.  This is particular slow since the file in the HSM  
>> based filesystem may only be a stub and all the data is only  
>> resident on tape.  The copy waits for the datq to be recalled from  
>> tape which depending on the file size can take a long time.  I've  
>> looked through the patch code and am wondering if there is an easy  
>> way to have rsync do a move from the ~.tmp. directory.
>
> This is easy to do, and I have implemented a --trust-detect-renamed
> option to do it in the attached patch to the current CVS rsync.
> However, it is risky because a false rename detection could cause
> rsync to substitute an unrelated but similar-looking destination file
> for a new source file.  Don't use the option unless you are prepared
> for the consequences.
>
> Matt
> <trust-detect-renamed.diff>