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Re: Linus kernel tree corrupt?

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HAH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date
Jul 10, 2005, 20:35 UTC
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Petr Baudis wrote:
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> 
> It _is_ unsafe for individual objects, and your packfile will be corrupt
> if you break it in the middle and not have --whole-file turned on, I
> assume. It would be ideal if we could make rsync allow resuming download
> of the file if interrupted, but not under the final name but in that
> hidden file it uses.
>

I think if you just don't give it --partial you're fine (rsync always creates a second copy, --partial decides if a partial file should be thrown away or not.)

	-hpa
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