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DO NOT REPLY [Bug 7953] New: -x flag prevents symlink on source filesystem from overwriting dest dir
2011 Feb 11
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DO NOT REPLY [Bug 7953] New: -x flag prevents symlink on source filesystem from overwriting dest dir
...is is inconsistent with the behaviour seen when rsync'ing between directories
in the same context.
Commands to reproduce:
mkdir /testing
mount -t tmpfs -o size=1M,nr_inodes=1000,mode=0700 tmpfs /testing
mkdir /testing/bar
ln -s /testing/bar /testing/foo
mkdir --parents /tmp/foo/bar/baz
rsync -arvx --delete --force /testing/foo /tmp
Result:
sending incremental file list
cannot delete non-empty directory: foo
could not make way for new symlink: foo
sent 41 bytes received 12 bytes 106.00 bytes/sec
total size is 12 speedup is 0.23
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see prev...