Rsync 3.0.5pre1 released

[BuraphaLinux Server]

rsync -rltpcvxH --progress --delete /mnt/sdf1/dvd .
....
   lots of stuff works, but then....
....
dvd/setdir/www/web_admin-1.0-noarch-001.tgz
     1306806 100%    3.34MB/s    0:00:00 (xfer#927, to-check=1004/2734)
dvd/setdir/xlibs/
deleting dvd/setdir/xlibs/gstreamer-0.10.21-i586-001.tgz
deleting dvd/setdir/xlibs/gst_plugins_base-0.10.21-i586-001.tgz
dvd/setdir/xlibs/gst_plugins_base-0.10.20-i586-001.tgz
     1243619 100%   96.23MB/s    0:00:00 (xfer#928, to-check=1030/3129)
dvd/setdir/xlibs/gstreamer-0.10.20-i586-001.tgz
     2053355 100%   48.96MB/s    0:00:00 (xfer#929, to-check=1029/3129)
rsync: hlink.c:273: check_prior: Assertion `node->data != ((void *)0)' failed.
rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 212 bytes [sender]: Broken pipe (32)
deleting dvd/source/base/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.41.3.tar.gz.asc
deleting dvd/source/base/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.41.3.tar.gz
deleting dvd/source/development/cmake/cmake-2.6.2.tar.gz
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (18268 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at
io.c(595) [sender=3.0.5pre1]

/mnt/sdf1 is a USB thumb drive, 4GB.  If I use tar, the files are fine when
I copy them.  File system is ext2.  Mounted rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime.

. is ext3 on a LUKS encrypted LVM2 on top of software RAID 5.  Mounted rw.

Everything execpt rsync is fine (for about 6 months) on the machine,
the thumb drive, and the LUKS/LVM2/RAID5 drive.

I reported this once before and you suggested it was an out-of-memory
issue, but if it is a memory issue, why doesn't rsync say 'out of memory'
instead of this cryptic assert?

I am testing rsync-2.0.5pre1.
Kernel is 2.6.26.6

I run this as root, and here is the output of 'ulimit -a' on bash:
BLS #ulimit -a
core file size          (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size           (kbytes, -d) unlimited
scheduling priority             (-e) 0
file size               (blocks, -f) unlimited
pending signals                 (-i) 32768
max locked memory       (kbytes, -l) 4096
max memory size         (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files                      (-n) 32768
pipe size            (512 bytes, -p) 8
POSIX message queues     (bytes, -q) 819200
real-time priority              (-r) 0
stack size              (kbytes, -s) unlimited
cpu time               (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes              (-u) 512
virtual memory          (kbytes, -v) unlimited
file locks                      (-x) unlimited

BLS #cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:      3625756 kB
MemFree:        132820 kB
Buffers:         20420 kB
Cached:        3322020 kB
SwapCached:         12 kB
Active:         185264 kB
Inactive:      3253484 kB
HighTotal:     2751360 kB
HighFree:         7316 kB
LowTotal:       874396 kB
LowFree:        125504 kB
SwapTotal:     8393952 kB
SwapFree:      8393876 kB
Dirty:             284 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
AnonPages:       96308 kB
Mapped:          38556 kB
Slab:            36624 kB
SReclaimable:    27568 kB
SUnreclaim:       9056 kB
PageTables:       1956 kB
NFS_Unstable:        0 kB
Bounce:              0 kB
WritebackTmp:        0 kB
CommitLimit:  10206828 kB
Committed_AS:   329040 kB
VmallocTotal:   114680 kB
VmallocUsed:      6788 kB
VmallocChunk:   107652 kB

BLS #free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       3625756    3493040     132716          0      20440    3322072
-/+ buffers/cache:     150528    3475228
Swap:      8393952         76    8393876

BLS #du -sh /mnt/sdf1/dvd
4.2G    /mnt/sdf1/dvd

BLS #du -sh dvd
4.2G    dvd

With all of that RAM and SWAP, do you really think this is a memory problem?
Every time I have rsync crash, it is on a hard link.  rsync 3.0.3 and
3.0.4 also have the same problem for me.



On 10/12/08, Wayne Davison <wayned at samba.org> wrote:
> Rsync version 3.0.5pre1 is now available for release testing.  This is
> a bug-fix release.
>
> Please test this new release and send email to the rsync mailing list
> with any questions, comments, or bug reports.
>
> To see a full summary of the changes since 3.0.4, visit this link:
>
>   http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/src-previews/rsync-3.0.5pre1-NEWS
>
> You can download the source tar file and its signature from here:
>
>   http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/src-previews/rsync-3.0.5pre1.tar.gz
>   http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/src-previews/rsync-3.0.5pre1.tar.gz.asc
>
> The patches directory is now in a separate tar file (for those that want
> one or more of the patches):
>
>
> http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/src-previews/rsync-patches-3.0.5pre1.tar.gz
>
> http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/src-previews/rsync-patches-3.0.5pre1.tar.gz.asc
>
> See the rsync website for other download methods, including diffs, etc.:
>
>   http://rsync.samba.org/
>
> ..wayne..
>