rsync - Nov 2009 - DO NOT REPLY [Bug 6928] New: Warn the user to use --modify-window=1 --no-owner --no-group etc. on FAT partitions

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6928

           Summary: Warn the user to use --modify-window=1 --no-owner --no-
                    group etc. on FAT partitions
           Product: rsync
           Version: 3.1.0
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P3
         Component: core
        AssignedTo: wayned at samba.org
        ReportedBy: jasonspiro4 at gmail.com
         QAContact: rsync-qa at samba.org


When the OS reports that the user is using a FAT partition, or when you detect
that the user is probably using a FAT partition (maybe you can look at the few
file times in the partition's root directory and check if they're all
even
numbers), and the user is not using --modify-window=1, please print a warning
onscreen, warning the user to do so.

This will help newbies who didn't read the manpage.  I originally didn't
read
it, and many of the people who come to irc.freenode.net haven't read it
either.


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------- Comment #1 from matt at mattmccutchen.net  2009-11-27 22:51 CST -------
I would be disinclined to add this to the main version of rsync.  Rsync
generally doesn't devote effort to second-guessing the user.  Not reading
the
man page is not a supported use case.


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------- Comment #2 from jasonspiro4 at gmail.com  2009-12-04 00:35 CST -------
I neglected to use --modify-window=1 when I first started using rsync.  More
importantly, think how other people have made the same mistake.  Who knows how
many hours, days, or weeks of unneeded syncing we (the group as a whole) have
waited through in total until we've learned.

"With very few exceptions, users will not cuddle up with [a] manual and
read it
through before they begin to use [some] software.  In general [...] users are
trying to get something done, and they see reading the manual as a waste of
time, or at the very least, as a distraction that keeps them from getting their
task done."  --
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000062.html


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