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[Ian Burrell]

On 7/18/06, seth vidal <skvidal at linux.duke.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 15:04 -0700, Ian Burrell wrote:
> >
> > There is also the --delay-updates option to rsync.  It causes rsync to
> > put all the updates in a temporary directory and moves them into place
> > at the end.  The move is fast which makes the update more atomic.
> >
>
> it's only fast if it doesn't cross a partition.
>

The --delay-updates only uses a rename.  By default, it puts the files
in temporary directories (named .~tmp~) under each real directory.  It
is possible to specifiy the partial directory with the --partial-dir
but using an absolute directory can fail if it is on a different
partition or the tree crosses a mount point because it can't do a
rename.

 - Ian