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I use rsync on an SSD which is slow at writing, but very fast at reading, so it is important to me to avoid writing data. I had hoped rsync would only write changes in files when using --inplace, but it seems not: # Make a 1 GB file $ perl -e 'print "x"x1000000000' > 1g # rsync it (as expected this costs 1 GB writes) $ ./rsync-3.1.0/rsync --progress --inplace -cva 1g 1g.copy # Change the first 200 bytes inplace $ perl -e 'open(A,"+<",shift) || die; seek(A,1,1); print A "a\n"x100;' 1g.copy # rsync again $ ./rsync-3.1.0/rs...