rsync walks through excluded directories...

[Jean-Christophe Guillain]

Hello all,

In the INCLUDE/EXCLUDE PATTERN RULES section of the rsync man page I read
that "the exclude patterns actually short-circuit the directory traversal
stage when rsync finds the files to send" wich is actually the behaviour I
expect.
But it seems that rsync actually descend through all section of the
hierarchy of some folders I excluded.

The command I used :
$ rsync -aH --del --ignore-errors --filter="- /lost+found/*" --filter="-
/.snapshot/*" /data/orig_disks/vol-opt/ /data/bckp_disks/vol-opt/

The problem :
$ lsof | grep rsync | grep snapshot
rsync     1599        root    3r      DIR               0,25    12288
12117707 /data/orig_disks/vol-opt/opt/.snapshot/some/directory/somefile

rsync does not transfer files from this directory as expected, but it take
hours to visit it...

OS : Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze 6.0 amd64
rsync version : rsync  version 3.0.7  protocol version 30

I don't know if it's a bug, an error in the man page, or just me :-)

Thank you,
jC
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