Bug#495594: rsync: unexpected behavior when transferring files to vfat filesystem

2008-09-10 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Wednesday 10 September 2008 09:43:13 you wrote: > On 2008-09-10 15:19 +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: > > 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

Bug#495594: rsync: unexpected behavior when transferring files to vfat filesystem

2008-09-10 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 10 Sep 2008, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > > 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? > > Note that 2.6.26 doesn't report an error when you try to chmod(2) or > chown(2) files on VFAT filesystems, unl

Bug#495594: rsync: unexpected behavior when transferring files to vfat filesystem

2008-09-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-09-10 15:19 +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: > 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

Bug#495594: rsync: unexpected behavior when transferring files to vfat filesystem

2008-09-10 Thread Paul Slootman
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 ne

Bug#495594: rsync: unexpected behavior when transferring files to vfat filesystem

2008-08-18 Thread Joseph Rawson
Package: rsync Version: 3.0.3-2 Severity: important 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