[BUGS] rsync + smbfs

Jerahmy Pocott quakenet1 at optusnet.com.au
Wed Jan 2 00:09:20 EST 2008


Hello again,

More with the on going rsync with smbfs saga.. I'v managed to get  
everything working pretty much how I want, I discovered the time issue  
was related to smbfs file times only being accurate to within 2  
seconds, setting --modify-window=1 fixes this problem.

Now however I'm trying to sync a filesystem that's currently on a  
windows xp pro machine onto the local fs, I mount it using smbfs but  
while building the file list I get a number of errors saying:

rsync: readdir("/mnt/various/directory/paths/like/this/etc"): Bad file  
descriptor (9)

then at the end of the sync:

rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at  
main.c(892) [sender=2.6.8]

How ever I can read these paths fine using ls and can cp from them  
etc.. Only rsync seems to be having an issue reading them, any ideas  
why this is and how I can work around it?

Cheers again,
J.


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