On Mon 18 Aug 2008, Joseph Rawson wrote: > I just used rsync -av to transfer some files to a vfat partition today, and I > was surprised that the files failed to transfer. I do understand that I > shouldn't really be using the -a option to transfer the files. On earlier > kernels, this was never a problem, since I'd only get errors pertaining to > permissions and ownership not being preserved, yet the files transferred just > fine.
I've been trying to reproduce this (on a 2.6.26 kernel), and haven't had any problems. Perhaps you could show exactly what happens? I did the following: # uname -r 2.6.26.3-vs2.3.0.35-d64-xeon # self compiled, with vserver support # dd if=/dev/zero /extra/tmp/TEMP bs=1024k count=50 # I have no vfat device # mkfs.msdos /extra/tmp/TEMP # mount -oloop /extra/tmp/TEMP /mnt # mount ... /extra/tmp/TEMP on /mnt type vfat (rw,loop=/dev/loop0) # rsync -rtv /etc /mnt/ sending incremental file list etc/ etc/.pwd.lock etc/Net ... etc/modules.conf etc/modules.conf.old skipping non-regular file "etc/motd" etc/motd.tail ... etc/zsh/zshrc etc/zsh/zshrc.dpkg-old sent 1754826 bytes received 9379 bytes 3528410.00 bytes/sec total size is 1726903 speedup is 0.98 # echo $? 0 # find /etc -type f | wc -l 471 # find /etc -type d | wc -l 104 # find /mnt/etc -type f | wc -l 471 # find /mnt/etc -type d | wc -l 104 Everything looks fine to me. If there is a problem, I'd like to find it, but I need your help in reproducing it. thanks, Paul Slootman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
