Direct I/O support (patches included)

[Dag Wieers]

On Sat, 16 Feb 2013, Linda Walsh wrote:

> Dag Wieers wrote:
>>  On Thu, 14 Feb 2013, Brian K. White wrote:
>> 
>> >  On 2/14/2013 9:50 AM, Dag Wieers wrote:
>> > 
>> > >   Since a --direct-io feature was requested a few times the past decade
>> > >   with little response and the actual patch is quite trivial, I patched
>> > >   both v3.0.9 and master branch and included the patches here.
>> > 
>> >  When I drop the 3.0.9 diff into my otherwise working spec file for 3.0.9 
>> >  on opensuse build service, it patches and builds with no error, but 
>> >  "make test" fails:
>>
>>  Attached is an updated patch which takes care of the test cases.
>
> ---
> Tried this patch, but it failed to work:
>
> cmd:
> cd /Media && {
> 	 sudo rsync --archive --hard-links --acls -xattrs --whole-file
> 	 --drop-cache \
> 						 --one-file-system
> 						 --drop-cache --8-bit-output
> 						 \
> 						 --human-readable --progress
> 						 --inplace --del .
> 						 /backups/Media/.
> }
> ----
>
> first it deleted a bunch of stuff (~30 files)
> deleting Library /
> rsync: delete_file: unlink(MediaBack) failed: Operation not permitted (1)
> .recycle/
> .recycle/SDT27D6.tmp
>           0 100%    0.00kB/s    0:00:00 (xfer#1, to-check=1006/1019)
> .recycle/Library/
> .recycle/Library/[Commie] Kotoura - 04 [FC6C5497].mkv
>      32.77K   0%    0.00kB/s    0:00:00
> rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes to socket [sender]:Broken 
> pipe (32)
>
> Then a bunch more deletes...(~17)
> Then:
> rsync: write failed on "/backups/Media/./.recycle/Library/[Commie] Kotoura - 
> 04 [FC6C5497].mkv": Invalid argument (22)
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (57 bytes received so far) [sender]
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(605) 
> [sender=3.0.9]
>
>
> ???

Since you didn't use --direct-io, my patch was not doing anything. Since 
you were using --drop-cache (twice!) this is not a vanilla rsync either.

What was it you were trying to do ?

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