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...iority: P5 Component: core AssignedTo: wayned at samba.org ReportedBy: nicholas.man at gmail.com QAContact: rsync-qa at samba.org This is request to add a flag to request that rsync does not automatically sort --from-files alphabetically, due to its use case with LTFS media. LTFS is a linear media with exceedingly slow seek times when compared with raw read/write speed. To do efficient reads, each file on the tape must be read off in the order it was written. Each file has an extended attribute (ltfs.startblock) which returns its exact location (startblock) on...