- The --stats output will contain file-list time-statistics if both
sides are 2.6.4, or if the local side is 2.6.4 and the files are
being pushed (since the stats come from the sending side).
+ (Requires protocol 29 for a pull.)
+
+ - The default "log format" for a daemon rsync with "transfer logging"
+ enabled has changed to put the file size prior to the file name and
+ also to add the destination of a symlink (e.g. "foo -> bar"). The
+ rsyncstats perl script was updated to handle this (it's now in the
+ "support" directory). If you depend on the old format, just set it
+ in your rsyncd.conf file.
BUG FIXES:
was only treating it as a special token in an rsync include/exclude
file).
- - The --dry-run option (-n) now mentions changes in directories (w/-v).
- It also now includes the normal uptodate output information for -vv.
+ - The combination of --verbose and --dry-run now mentions the full list
+ of changes that would be output without --dry-run.
- Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination
that already exists in the --backup-dir.
- An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin0 needed
setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with
- mkstemp(). (Fix derived from the cygwin's rsync package.)
+ mkstemp(). (Fix derived from the Cygwin's 2.6.3 rsync package.)
- Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is
the sender, and the file-list is large.
- One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed.
- - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter no longer affects symlinks
- that are being copied, even if they point nowhere.
+ - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter used to erroneously affect
+ symlinks that pointed to a non-existent file. This has been fixed.
- If the OS does not have lchown() and its chown() tries to set the
referent of a symlink (as it should), we no longer try to set the
exited with an error for large files).
- If a daemon can't open the specified log file (i.e. syslog is not
- being used), die without crashing. We also try to output an error
- about the failure (which will only be seen if --no-detach was
+ being used), die without crashing. We also output an error about
+ the failure on stderr (which will only be seen if --no-detach was
specified).
- A local transfer no longer duplicates all its include/exclude options
- by sending the forked process a copy of the list it already has.
+ (since the forked process already has a copy of the exclude list,
+ there's no need to send them a set of duplicates).
ENHANCEMENTS:
- Added the --delete-during (--del) option which will delete files
from on the receiving side incrementally as each directory in the
- transfer is being processed (which makes it more efficient than the
- default, before-the-transfer behavior of --delete). Note that the
- --del option is implemented as an internally-defined popt alias, so
- an rsync daemon that refuses "delete" (which, for safety's sake,
- really matches "delete*") will still refuse all delete options. The
- default --delete behavior is also explicitly selectable via
- --delete-before.
+ transfer is being processed. This makes it more efficient than the
+ default, before-the-transfer behavior, which is now available as
+ --delete-before (this is the default --delete-WHEN option that will
+ be chosen if --delete or --delete-excluded is specified without a
+ --delete-WHEN choice). All the --del* options infer --delete, so an
+ rsync daemon that refuses "delete" will still refuse to allow any
+ file-deleting options.
- All the --delete-WHEN options are now more memory efficient:
Previously an entire duplicate set of file-list objects was created
on the receiving side for the entire destination hierarchy. The new
- algorithm only creates a single directory of objects at a time.
+ algorithm only creates one directory of objects at a time.
- Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except
that it includes copies of identical files.
- The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options
so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it impossible to
start a daemon that had improper default option values that could
- cause problems (such as a hang or an abort) when a client connects.
+ cause problems (e.g. a hang or an abort) when a client connects.
- The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon
to specify both a default value for the daemon side and a value
that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option.
- Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from
- the patches dir.) Also added "address".
+ the patches dir.) Also added "address". A command-line option
+ will take precedence over a config-file option, as expected.
- In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received
file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the
partial file.
- The --inplace support was enhanced to work with --compare-dest,
- --link-dest, and (the new) --copy-dest options.
+ --link-dest, and (the new) --copy-dest options. (Requires protocol
+ 29.)
- Added the --dirs (-d) option for an easier way to copy directories
without recursion.
- Added the --list-only option which is mainly a way for the client to
put the server into listing mode without needing to resort to any
- option kluges (e.g. the age-old use of "-r --exclude="/*/*" for a
- non-recursive listing). This option is used automatically when a
- modern rsync speaks to a modern daemon, but may also be specified
- manually if you want to force the use of the --list-only option over
- a remote-shell connection.
+ internal option kluges (e.g. the age-old use of "-r --exclude="/*/*"
+ for a non-recursive listing). This option is used automatically
+ (behind the scenes) when a modern rsync speaks to a modern daemon,
+ but may also be specified manually if you want to force the use of
+ the --list-only option over a remote-shell connection.
- Added the --omit-dir-times (-O) option which will avoid updating the
modified time for directories when --times was specified. This
filter files (like .cvsignore, but with full filter-rule parsing).
This new option was chosen in order to ensure that all existing
include/exclude processing remained 100% compatible with older
- versions.
+ versions. Protocol 29 is needed for full filter-rule support, but
+ backward-compatible rules work with earlier protocol versions.
+ (Promoted from the patches dir and enhanced.)
- Added the --delay-updates option that puts all updated files into
a temporary directory (by default ".~tmp~", but settable via the
setting was added a couple releases ago, but left undocumented.)
- The sender and the generator now double-check the file-list index
- they are given, and refuse to operate on a directory index (since
- that would indicate that something had gone very wrong).
+ they are given, and refuse to try to do a file transfer on a
+ non-file index (since that would indicate that something had gone
+ very wrong).
+
+ - Added the --itemize-changes (-i) option, which is a way to output a
+ more detailed list of what files changed in any way and how they
+ changed. The effect is the same as specifying a --log-format of
+ "%i %n%L" (see the rsyncd.conf manpage). Works with --dry-run too.
+
+ - Added the --fuzzy option, which attempts to find a basis file for a
+ file that is being created from scratch. The current algorithm
+ only looks in the destination directory for the created file, but
+ it does attempt to find a match based on size/mod-time (in case the
+ file was renamed with no other changes) as well as based on a fuzzy
+ name-matching algorithm. This option requires protocol 29 because
+ it needs the new file-sorting order. (Promoted from patches dir
+ and enhanced.)
+
+ - Improved the option descriptions in the --help text.
SUPPORT FILES:
- - Added support/atomic-rsync -- a perl script that will transfer some
- files using rsync, and then move the updated files into place all at
- once at the end of the transfer. Only works when pulling, and uses
- --link-dest and a parallel hierarchy of files to effect its update.
+ - Added atomic-rsync to the support dir: a perl script that will
+ transfer some files using rsync, and then move the updated files into
+ place all at once at the end of the transfer. Only works when
+ pulling, and uses --link-dest and a parallel hierarchy of files to
+ effect its update.
- - Added support/mnt-excl that takes the /proc/mounts file and
- translates it into a set of excludes that will exclude all mount
- points (even mapped mounts to the same disk). The excludes are made
- relative to the specified source dir and properly anchored.
+ - Added mnt-excl to the support dir: a perl script that takes the
+ /proc/mounts file and translates it into a set of excludes that will
+ exclude all mount points (even mapped mounts to the same disk). The
+ excludes are made relative to the specified source dir and properly
+ anchored.
- - Added support/savetransfer.c -- a C program that can make a copy of
- all the data that flows over the wire. This lets you test for data
- corruption (by saving the data on both the sending side and the
- receiving side) or provides a way to help debug a protocol error.
+ - Added savetransfer.c to the support dir: a C program that can make
+ a copy of all the data that flows over the wire. This lets you test
+ for data corruption (by saving the data on both the sending side and
+ the receiving side) or provides a way to help debug a protocol error.
- - Added support/rrsync -- my version of Joe Smith's restricted rsync
- perl script. This helps to ensure that only certain rsync commands
- can be run by an ssh invocation.
-
- - Improved the option descriptions in the --help text.
+ - Added rrsync to the support dir: this is my version of Joe Smith's
+ restricted rsync perl script. This helps to ensure that only certain
+ rsync commands can be run by an ssh invocation.
INTERNAL:
- Added better checking of the checksum-header values that come over
the socket.
- - Merged the various delete-file functions into a single function so
+ - Merged a variety of file-deleting functions into a single function so
that it is easier to maintain.
- Improved the type of some variables (particularly blocksize vars) for
- Defined int32 in a way that ensures that the build dies if we can't
find a variable with at least 32 bits.
+ - The daemon's "read only" config item now sets an internal read_only
+ variable that makes extra sure that no write/delete calls on the
+ read-only side can succeed.
+
+ PROTOCOL DIFFERENCES FOR VERSION 29:
+
+ - A 16-bit flag-word is transmitted after every file-list index. This
+ indicates what is changing between the sender and the receiver. The
+ generator now transmits an index and a flag-word to indicate when
+ dirs and symlinks have changed (resorting to the old-style outputting
+ of local change-messages for older protocols).
+
+ - If --inplace is specified, the generator sends an extra byte after
+ the flag-word indicating what kind of basis file is being used for
+ the transfer (see the FNAMECMP_* defines). This information is used
+ to optimize the transfer when the basis file is not the destination.
+
+ - The sending of exclude names is done using filter-rule syntax. This
+ means that all names have a prefixed rule indicator, even excludes
+ (which used to be sent as a bare pattern, when possible). The -C
+ option will include the per-dir .cvsignore merge file in the list of
+ filter rules so it is positioned correctly (unlike in some older
+ transfer scenarios).
+
+ - Rsync sorts the filename list in a different way: it sorts the subdir
+ names after the non-subdir names for each dir's contents, and it
+ always puts a dir's contents immediately after the dir's name in the
+ list. (Previously an item named "foo.txt" would sort in between
+ directory "foo/" and "foo/bar".)
+
+ - When talking to a protocol 29 rsync daemon, a list-only request
+ is able to note this before the options are sent over the wire, and
+ the new --list-only option is encluded in the options sent over the
+ socket.
+
+ - When the --stats bytes are sent over the wire (or stored in a batch),
+ they now include two elapsed-time values: one for how long it took to
+ build the file-list, and one for how long it took to send it over the
+ wire (each expressed in thousandths of a second).
+
+ - When --delete-excluded is specified with some filter rules (AKA
+ excludes), a client sender will now initiate a send of the filter
+ rules to the receiver (older protocols used to omit the sending of
+ excludes in this situation since there were no receiver-specific
+ rules that survived --delete-excluded back then). Note that, as with
+ all the filter-list sending, only items that are significant to the
+ other side will actually be sent over the wire, so the filter-rule
+ list is often empty in this scenario.
+
+ - A protocol-29 batch file includes a bit for the setting of the --dirs
+ option. Also, the shell script created by --write-batch will use the
+ --filter option instead of --exclude-from to capture any filter rules.
+
BUILD CHANGES:
- Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().
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