From: Daniel Lang <dl@leo.org> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: Jon Dugan <jdugan@ncsa.uiuc.edu>, hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rsync woes Message-ID: <20010510093316.B14626@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> In-Reply-To: <20010510040327.56705380E@overcee.netplex.com.au>; from peter@wemm.org on Wed, May 09, 2001 at 09:03:27PM -0700 References: <20010509202802.A15761@ncsa.uiuc.edu> <20010510040327.56705380E@overcee.netplex.com.au>
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Hi, Peter Wemm wrote on Wed, May 09, 2001 at 09:03:27PM -0700: [..] > I think I know what is going on. rsync is using an embedded zlib-1.1.2 > library. We got burned a few times with 1.1.2 ourselves, and have 1.1.3 > in the tree. The changelog for 1.1.3 says: > > Changes in 1.1.3 (9 July 1998) > - fix "an inflate input buffer bug that shows up on rare but persistent > occasions" (Mark) > ... > > I half suspect this is the reason for the problems. :-( I wonder how many > tweaks were made to the embedded copy? Hmm, but the iso's shouldn't be transferred compressed. At least I understood Peter that way, that .tgz and .iso will be excluded from compression. So why should deflate() be called at all ? Or is it, that the whole stream is piped through, but with a compression level of 0 or something ? Regards, Daniel -- IRCnet: Mr-Spock - Eddie would go! - Daniel Lang * dl@leo.org * +49 89 289 25735 * http://www.leo.org/~dl/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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