On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 08:08:45AM +0200, Roman Drahtmueller wrote:
Please try multiple -v options to see where it fails.
With rsync-2.6.0-78 it works without problems: fizia:~ # rsync -a --delete /home/* /home.backup/ fizia:~ # With rsync-2.6.2-82 it fails: fizia:~ # /tmp/rsync -avv --delete /home/* /home.backup/ building file list ... [sender] expand file_list to 131072 bytes, did move [sender] expand file_list to 262144 bytes, did move [sender] expand file_list to 524288 bytes, did move done [receiver] expand file_list to 131072 bytes, did move [receiver] expand file_list to 262144 bytes, did move [receiver] expand file_list to 524288 bytes, did move [receiver] expand file_list to 131072 bytes, did move deleting in CD [receiver] expand file_list to 131072 bytes, did move deleting in anton [receiver] expand file_list to 131072 bytes, did move rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (8 bytes read so far) rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(342) fizia:~ # When I try -vvv, it comes to the point [sender] make_file(anton/.netscape/cache/11/cache3CA11D31113079E.jpg,*,2) [sender] clearing per-dir .cvsignore exclude list [sender] make_file(anton/.netscape/cache/12,*,2) [sender] make_file(anton/.netscape/cache/12/cache3CA11D92143079E.jpg,*,2) and hangs there. If I try to attach strace to rsync processes, both of them are sitting at select: select(2, NULL, [1], NULL, {23, 481000} select(5, NULL, [4], NULL, {41, 907000} /home and /home.backup are separate partitions with reiserfs 40GB in size with ~28GB of data.
We're not aware of any problems with it (yet).
Well, this is a surprize. Please let me know if you want me to do more testing. I also reported this to www.suse.com/feedback Thanks, -Kastus (To contact me in private, replace NOSPAM with kastus in my address)