Subject: Re: aty128fb.c missing from rync'd benh sources...

From: Daniel Berlin <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 01:26:43 -0400

"Joseph P. Garcia" <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 21:08:32 -0400
> Daniel Berlin <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> You just aren't using the --delete flag, so it never deleted the file.
>
> Confirmed.  Just ran a sync.
>
> ...
> deleting toto
> deleting fs/cramfs/cramfs.h
> deleting drivers/video/aty128fb.c
> deleting drivers/ieee1394/guid.h
> deleting drivers/ieee1394/guid.c
> deleting drivers/ieee1394/aic5800.h
> deleting drivers/ieee1394/aic5800.c
> ...
>
> And rsync will only delete files if run with the --delete flag.

Right. Mirrors with extra space will keep older, deleted, versions of files
around (remember, rsync is a mirroring tool), while those with less
space will just want an exact mirror (or whatever). Hence the
--max-delete flag, and whatnot.

> --
> Joseph P. Garcia
> http://www.lycestra.com/

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