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...ilar to lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2011-June/162704.html. Clearly, mount.cifs seems to cache information somewhere. I have looked through /etc, /lib, /var and /proc for any evidence that ipaddress2 was cached, but cannot find anything. Any tips on how to solve this problem? Thanks! -- Digit Ijit

It would still be downloading the whole file only to write out a new one. Rsync writes out a whole new file because it assumes it is doing so locally. The source of that new file can be a combination of parts of the existing file and parts of the remote file but it still writes the whole thing. --inplace helps with that somewhat but you will probably still write all of the file after the first