Hi, On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Robert Schiele wrote:
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 03:13:46AM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
I took a look at it and lifted a few ideas. However, --size-only is not needed when converting from ftp to rsync. rsync will use its sliding checksum algorithm (NOT the dreaded MD4 checksum) to compare the files and not redownload them.
Sure but this still forces the server to read the full file ftom disk.
Exactly; it would force the server to behave like with "--checksum" even if the server has disabled it. There is a special situation when an ftp mirror converts to rsync: Via ftp, only crippled and/or "time zone shifted" time stamps are available, but rsync communicates true inode time stamp values. So here we "know" the file contents are equal but only the time stamps not. Best scenario for "--size-only". Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)