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...EW Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: core AssignedTo: wayned at samba.org ReportedBy: Dave at Yost.com QAContact: rsync-qa at samba.org someday, perhaps with zfs, file system APIs will offer transaction wrapper functions, something like fio_begn(), fio_cancel(), fio_commit(). In the meantime (another 10 years?) until that happy day arrives, rsync could fake an almost transactional update in the following manner: instead of creating hidden files as you go, create a hidden directory at the root of the tree containing all files being transfe...