[Dirvish] Dirvish and CurlFtpFs

[hanj]

On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 00:10:30 +0100
Dirk Wessner <wessner at iuw.h-da.de> wrote:

> Hi hanj,
> 
> maybe this rsync option might help you?
> 
> --checksum
> 
> from the man page:
> 
> "This changes the way rsync checks if the files have been changed and are in
> need of a transfer. Without this option, rsync uses a "quick check" that (by
> default) checks if each file's size and time of last modification match
> between the sender and receiver. This option changes this to compare a 128-bit
> MD4 checksum for each file that has a matching size. Generating the checksums
> means that both sides will expend a lot of disk I/O reading all the data in
> the files in the transfer (and this is prior to any reading that will be done
> to transfer changed files), so this can slow things down significantly."
> 
> Don't know how this will behave in combination with CurlFtpFs.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dirk

Hello Dirk

Thanks for writing. I would like to avoid the checksum option if
possible. I can confirm that the ctimes are different between the ftp
mount and what's in the dirvish vault. So is there another flag to
disregard ctimes?

Thanks!
hanji