- Add the zlibx (external-code compatible) compression name.
- Re-enable zlib support with the external library so it can be
tried as a fallback if zlibx isn't available.
- Add --compress-choice=STR (aka -zz=STR) option.
- Make --cc=STR an alias for --checksum-choice=STR.
- Hook up the new compression negotiation logic.
- Add checksum negotiation to the protocol so that we can easily add new
checksum algorithms and each will be used when both sides support it.
- Increase the size of the compat_flags value in the protocol from a
byte to an int.
On BSD-ish systems you can type Ctrl+T to see the current file and
the progress output (in --info=progress2 format). On hosts w/o
SIGINFO, use something like "killall -VTALRM rsync" or a more
targetted "kill -VTALRM PID ..." call (as needed).
This is a fleshed out version of the old one in the patches repo with
documentation & proper handling of the implied --inplace option for a
daemon's option-rufusing considerations. I ommitted the -w short option
as I would hate for someone to turn this on accidentally.
This can be used by a root-run rsync to try to make reading or writing
files safer in a situation where you can't run the whole rsync command
as a non-root user.
The new code tries to punch holes in the destination file using newer
Linux fallocate features. It also supports a --whole-file + --sparse +
--inplace copy on any filesystem by truncating the destination file.
This patch adds the ability to specify --modify-window=-1 (aka -@-1) to
ask rsync to compare files with the full nanosecond timestamps. The
default is still -@0 for the moment, which ignores nanoseconds in time
comparisons. Changing the default to -1 would cause a copy from ext4 to
ext3 to constantly compare as different, or a copy there and back again
to do a full copy as it zeroed all the nanosecond times. Such a change
might be too much of a functional difference for things like backup
solutions to handle without a warning period. The current plan is to
support nanosecond comparisons for those that want them, and possibly
change the default window value from 0 to -1 at some point in the
future.
Adding new-style compression that only compresses the literal data that
is sent over the wire and not also matching file data that was not sent.
This new-style compression is compatible with external zlib instances,
and will eventually become the default (once enough time has passed that
all servers support the --new-compress and --old-compress options).
NOTE: if you build rsync with an external zlib (i.e. if you specified
configure --with-included-zlib=no) you will ONLY get support for the
--new-compress option! A client will treat -z as uncompressed (with a
warning) and a server will exit with an error (unless -zz was used).
