From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 20:35:17 GMT
Subject: Re: Linus kernel tree corrupt?
Message-ID: <42D18685.1000307@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050710152309.GE24249@pasky.ji.cz>

Petr Baudis wrote:
> 
> 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