Re: [Sheflug] File-sync weirdness

[Peter Humphrey <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 21 July 2009 10:09:12 Robin Wood wrote:

> Are the files actually changing or is rsync just updating them? Do the
> same experiment and the diff the files rsync say has changed with the
> originals, see what happens.
>
> I have rsync report things changed quite often when I know they haven't.
> If you are using FAT then this comment from the man page tells about it
> happening:
>
> " When transferring to FAT filesystems rsync may re-sync unmodified
> files.  See the comments on the --modify-window option."

(Sorry about the delay - I got distracted.)

I think it's just a feature of rsync, as it happens with other transfers 
too. I'll just ignore it. Thanks anyway.

-- 
Rgds
Peter

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