Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:47:56 +0200 (MEST)
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>, Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc3-git3 - XFS - BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer
 dereference at virtual address 00000078
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>> Its not clear to me where the rename operation happens in all of
>> this - does rsync create a local, temporary copy of the file and
>> then rename it?
>
>Yes, this is normally how rsync does it.

If file already exists {
    foreach block {
        copy block either from disk or from the 
        source operand, whichever is never, to temp file
    }
}

When rsync catches a signal {
    move the tempfile to the original name
}


Jan Engelhardt
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