--delay-updates --temp-dir does it work?

[Jiří Prchal]

Hi all,
I can't get this work as man page mention:
"
--delay-updates          put all updated files into place at end
--temp-dir=DIR, -T       create temporary files in directory DIR
"
I'm doing whole root update over slow and unstable connection and I understood that those options should solve my problem of corrupted fs on partial update.
I thought this will transmit all changed files at first and then move them over old ones.
Sice the free space on receiver partition is limited, I need to use other partition/device there, therefore DIR is absolute path. But while transmitting, only one file at time appears in temp dir. And in one place, no complete dir hierarchy.
I tried -partial-dir also, but it fails too because there are more files with the same name, so this works as man page describes.
Am I missing something? Any help, please?
Thanks
Jiri