On 2014-03-30 16:42, James Knott wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
When copying to an empty partition, rsync provides no advantage over cp -a. It does.
It can verify the copy, or retake an interrupted transfer.
Given that we're normally copying to a directly attached drive, how often do those problems show up? How is copying any different than any other write in this regard. There are already error detection/correction methods in use. Even when copying over a network, there are mechanisms in TCP & Ethernet to detect & correct errors.
Which fail. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/bitrot-and-atomic-cows... www.streamscale.com/media/pdf_folder/CERN_Data_Corruption.pdf http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)