[Dirvish] Dirvish and CurlFtpFs (Solved)

[hanj]

On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 11:33:39 -0800 (PST)
Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, hanj wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for writing. I would like to avoid the checksum option if
> > possible.
> 
> For bandwidth reasons, I guess?  That makes some sense.
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Well, the ctimes will usually be different between the Dirvish vault and 
> the FTP mount, but what about mtimes?
> 
> Can you give us the stat output for a directory with curlftpfs and then 
> the same directory's stat output a few hours / a day later / a remount 
> later?
> 
> I just looked at the curlftpfs source, and it does seem to set ctime and 
> mtime in a reasonable way.
> 
> Have you seen this in the rsync man page yet?:
> 
>         --size-only
>                Normally rsync will not transfer any files that are already  the
>                same  size  and  have the same modification time-stamp. With the
>                --size-only option, files will not be transferred if  they  have
>                the  same  size,  regardless  of  timestamp. This is useful when
>                starting to use rsync after using another mirroring system which
>                may not preserve timestamps exactly.
> 
> -- Asheesh.
> 

Hello Asheesh

Thanks for pointing that out! --size-only works perfectly.

Thanks!
hanji