--delete-during acts like --delete-before
Craig Bell
Craig.Bell at standard.com
Thu Sep 9 12:26:27 MDT 2010
Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
> My observation of current rsync in "Incremental Recursion"-Mode
>(default), with default "--delete", is that the files it deletes are
> about 1000 files further down the list than the file it currently
> transfers.
> So question is: Are there more than 1000 files in total?
No, there are fewer than one hundred files. So perhaps it's an issue of scale?
In other words, if I had thousands of files (each in its own subdirectory), then
--delete-during would eventually start to behave more "infix" as I expected?
Thanks for the insight Matthias... -cheers, CSB
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