Am 15.07.14 07:08, schrieb SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS automatic digest system:
>>
>> I wiped the stick (set all the charges to zero) and started over.
>> I am using
>>
>> rsync -rv --delete --modify-window=1 --times --inplace \
>>     $MyCDsSource/Linux $MyCDsTarget/.; sync; sync
>>
>> I will have results in a few hours.
>>
>> Then I am going to do it again with no changes to
>> see change happens.
>>
>>
> 
> 
> Uh, guys.  Something is weird.
> 
> I zero'ed out the stick
>    dd bs=4096  if=/dev/zero of=/sdc
> 
> and reformatted to one primary partition of type
> "c" (W95 FAT32).
> 
> Ran a full sync with
> rsync -rv --delete --modify-window=1 --times --inplace \
>      $MyCDsSource/Linux $MyCDsTarget/.; sync; sync
> 9 hrs - 9 min
> 
> They I reran the sync.  Less than one second.
> Did it again to make sure.  Again, less than one
> second again.
> 
> Moved two files and added one.  All changes were found.
> Again, less than a second.
> 
> Wow.  Can this really be correct?
> 
> -T

yes, this is the expected behaviour.

Most of the discussion of this thread was not to the point of the
problem. The only real problem was that you did not use the -t option
(as in "rsync -rtv"  or "rsync -r --times"). You could use a USB2 stick
and it would still be very fast.

Kay