rsync - Sep 2004 - --keep-dirlinks in combination with --one-file-system

I've been using the --keep-dirlinks feature of 2.6.3pre1.  I also
use -x (--one-file-system) and --delete-after.

The symlinked directories on the receiver are symlinked to a
partition other than the one where the target of the rsync resides
(that's the whole point of this nifty --keep-dirlinks feature).
 
I discovered that the symlinked directories are not being processed
for deletions.  Removing the -x option (which actually isn't needed
in this particular case but I had it there from force of habit...)
resolved the problem and a --dry-run shows that the files that I
knew should have been deleted will now be deleted.

So the documentation for --keep-dirlinks should warn that also using
-x (--one-file-system) has a side effect where symlinked directories
followed by --keep-dirlinks that reside on another file system will
not be processed for deletions.
-- 
        John Van Essen  Univ of MN Alumnus  <vanes002@umn.edu>

Please remove me from this list. I have no idea what email address it is 
sending the messages to, nor do I know what the password is to get in to 
change it.

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, 68Caliber.Com <bryan@68caliber.com>
wrote:
>
> .... I have no idea what email address it is
> sending the messages to, nor do I know what the password is to get in to
> change it.
To determine the email address by which you get rsync list emails,
view the header of a message that you recevied from the list and
look for a Received line from dp.samba.org (like this):

Received: from dp.samba.org (localhost [127.0.0.1])
? ? ? ? by lists.samba.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44ED6163A30
? ? ? ? for <vanes002@umn.edu>; Wed, ?8 Sep 2004 00:34:59 +0000 (GMT)


The email address in <...> is the one used to send the email to you.

Then you can use the mailman webpage for rsync (see the footer of this
email) to get a password reminder emailed to you using that address.
-- 
        John Van Essen  Univ of MN Alumnus  <vanes002@umn.edu>