jan,
@jan@kcore.org avatar

Has anyone ever seen the effect that a top-level recursive shows no more changes, but then going in the sub directories and doing individual rsyncs does give a lot of diff?

We're trying to figure out why that happens, and coming up empty.

Both FS are ext4, source server has been quieted (and FS even mounted r/o to make sure)

Rhel7 to rhel8. Rsync 3.1.2
Please boost.

ferki,
@ferki@fosstodon.org avatar

@jan Sounds interesting!

Adding -i or --itemize-changes to the rsync options should make it "output a change-summary for all updates", like this:

>f..T...... filename

If you add it twice, it should output it even for unchanged files on recent enough rsync versions.

The manpage of rsync explains the meaning of those flags. For example the above is:

> means the item is being received
f means it's a file
. means unchanged attribute
T means the modification time will be set

Hope this helps!

ferki,
@ferki@fosstodon.org avatar

@jan Sooo...did --itemize-changes help explain why rsync thinks it should sync specific items again?

I'm curious what's causing the behavior you described 🤔

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