From owner-freebsd-hubs Thu May 10 0:33:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from tuminfo2.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (tuminfo2.informatik.tu-muenchen.de [131.159.0.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFBD037B422 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 00:33:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from langd@informatik.tu-muenchen.de) Received: from atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de ([131.159.24.91] HELO atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de ident: IDENT-NONSENSE [port 1526]) by tuminfo2.informatik.tu-muenchen.de with SMTP id <113119-9080>; Thu, 10 May 2001 09:33:28 +0000 Received: by atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Postfix, from userid 20455) id 76E5413667; Thu, 10 May 2001 09:33:16 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 09:33:16 +0200 From: Daniel Lang To: Peter Wemm Cc: Jon Dugan , hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rsync woes Message-ID: <20010510093316.B14626@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <20010509202802.A15761@ncsa.uiuc.edu> <20010510040327.56705380E@overcee.netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010510040327.56705380E@overcee.netplex.com.au>; from peter@wemm.org on Wed, May 09, 2001 at 09:03:27PM -0700 X-Geek: GCS d-- s: a- C++ UB++++$ P+++$ L- E W+++(--) N+ o K w--- O? M- V@ PS+(++) PE--(+) Y+ PGP+ t++ 5@ X R+(-) tv+ b+ DI++ D++ G++ e+++ h---(-) r++>+++ y Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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