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I am trying to transfer a group of files in whole using rsync using the ?files-from option across a network with high bandwidth but relatively high latency. When I log into the remote machine I see an rsync command running like thus: rsync --server --sender -Re.sf -B16384 --files-from=- --from0 . / Note that I have used the -B option to increase block size but that seems to just apply to the blocks used for checksumming instead of actual network I/O. I came to this conclusion by running strace on the PIDs on both remote and local hosts. On the server side I got a s...

...ns together, sometimes there is file corruption. Client and server are both compiled against zlib 1.1.4, so the gzip corruption shouldn't be there, right? With -z and -B32768 there is an error, but it is detected in a different way. With -B65536 and without -z all seems to be going OK. With -B16384 and with -z all seems to be going OK. I'm guessing this is not a protocol limitation of rsync since it works OK without -z, but maybe it is problem in chunk sizing with -z? Here is what I encountered in a specific case where the file needed to be updated, but failed to. I've been appendi...