On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 04:33:03PM -0500, Kevin K wrote:
> I guess I don't understand the part about how files can be different sizes on different filesystems.
> 
> They can obviously use up more or less disk space on different filesystems.  For instance, a FAT disk with 32KB clusters will use up a minimum of 32KB even for a 10 byte file.  While NTFS will probably put the 10 bytes in the directory entry or use up a maximum of 4KB for 4KB clusters.
> 
> But I don't see why rsync would care about the unused data.  It should just sync the 10 bytes accessible.  I'm ignoring alternate streams here.


This is the usual confusion between the "st_size" and "st_blocks" entries in "struct stat" returned by lstat() and co.


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