Forgive me if this has already been asked but - shouldn't the '-a' switch include -X and -A for ACLs and extended attributes? I thought that -a means everything - so when everything grows -a should grow with it.
On Thu 11 Aug 2005, Marc Perkel wrote:> Forgive me if this has already been asked but - shouldn't the '-a' > switch include -X and -A for ACLs and extended attributes? > > I thought that -a means everything - so when everything grows -a should > grow with it.-a does not mean everything... e.g. it does not include -H as that incurs a lot more processing. -X and -A aren't (yet?) understood by standard rsync versions, so I don't think it's useful to include those in -a yet. Paul Slootman