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Re: rsync - file size differences


On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 10:13:50AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
>
>> "Ryan Brothers" <rbro@hotmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > I'm running into an issue using rsync-2.6.2-2 on cygwin on Win2k SP4 where
>> > after I rsync a directory, the binary files rsync'ed have a different size
>> > and thus are corrupt if I try to open them in the program they were created
>> > in (pdf's, jpg's, etc) - text files remain identical.
>>
>> . . .
>>
>> > Also, using rsync-2.6.2-1 gives identical files regardless of the text file
>> > option selected - this problem just started for me after upgrading to
>> > rsync-2.6.2-2.
>>
>> This sounds like the same problem I reported last week, where recently
>> on text-mount volumes rsync can't recognise its own results.
>>
>> The only change from 2.6.2-1 to 2.6.2-2 was 'a SECURITY FIX', seems
>> unlikely to provoke a problem in this area . . .
>
>...unless 2.6.2-2 was compiled/built differently (e.g., with different
>libraries, on a different machine, etc).  That was a WAG, BTW.

Lapo?  Can you weigh in here, please?

cgf

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