From 64318670a8e2834588aefa5ac65ec8bc5aa60ded Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wayne Davison Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:12:04 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Improved the description of how --delay-updates chooses it's dir. --- rsync.yo | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/rsync.yo b/rsync.yo index aec04eef..6fe98a04 100644 --- a/rsync.yo +++ b/rsync.yo @@ -1298,11 +1298,9 @@ updated file into a holding directory until the end of the transfer, at which time all the files are renamed into place in rapid succession. This attempts to make the updating of the files a little more atomic. By default the files are placed into a directory named ".~tmp~" in -each file's destination directory, but you can override this by specifying -the bf(--partial-dir) option. (Note that RSYNC_PARTIAL_DIR has no effect -on this value, nor is bf(--partial-dir) considered to be implied for the -purposes of the daemon-config's "refuse options" setting.) -Conflicts with bf(--inplace). +each file's destination directory, but if you've specified the +bf(--partial-dir) option, that directory will be used instead. +Conflicts with bf(--inplace) and bf(--append). This option uses more memory on the receiving side (one bit per file transferred) and also requires enough free disk space on the receiving -- 2.34.1