rsync - May 2006 - rsync eating bandwidth without doing anything

rsync fails to make a directory at the remote site, but continues anyway.

$ rsync -av local 10.1.1.1:/somewhere/
building file list ... done
rsync: recv_generator: mkdir "local": Permission denied (2)
stat local : No such file or directory

You can do this locally too - rsync to a usb device, then unplug the device.
rsync keeps doing something.

On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 01:08:30AM -0800, tyko brown
wrote:
> rsync fails to make a directory at the remote site, but continues anyway.
Yes, that is a known problem with rsync.  It tries to be robust and
create as many files as possible, but it continues to try to do work
that cannot succeed.  I'm looking into improving this.

..wayne..