Re: rsync weirdness

[Andrew Vaughan <ajv-lists@netspace.net.au>]

On Monday 03 July 2006 16:19, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > but still, istm that for some reason rsync doesn't realise that you
> > haven't changed everything. maybe you need to go through it once and
> > then its alright after that? just a thought.
>
> Interesting.  I checked the md5sums of the files on both machines and
> they are identical (except for the few modified files).  I am kind of
> stumped as to why this is happening.  Could it have something to do with
> hfs+ attributes?
>
I've seen entering/leaving daylight savings do something similar with 
Windows shares rsynced to linux.  

It might be worth letting rsync copy a few of the files to a temp location, 
and manually comparing timestamps/permissions etc.

HTH
Andrew V.