Bug 11101 - support writing to devices
Summary: support writing to devices
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: rsync
Classification: Unclassified
Component: core (show other bugs)
Version: 3.2.0
Hardware: All All
: P5 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Wayne Davison
QA Contact: Rsync QA Contact
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Reported: 2015-02-18 02:04 UTC by Jason Pyeron
Modified: 2020-04-26 06:27 UTC (History)
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Description Jason Pyeron 2015-02-18 02:04:47 UTC 
see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1193654

when rsyncing to a device, it is important to not delete the device node.

patch on redhat bugzilla.
Comment 1 Jason Pyeron 2015-02-18 02:50:57 UTC 
this is 

https://git.samba.org/?p=rsync-patches.git;a=blob;f=write-devices.diff

using it in production now
Comment 2 Michal Ruprich 2019-06-03 12:06:48 UTC 
I see that the write-devices.diff is in the rsync-patches-3.1.3.tar.gz but this bug is still in NEW state. Does that mean that the patch should not be used? What is the relationship between the rsync.git and rsync-patches.git?

Thanks.
Comment 3 Jason Pyeron 2019-06-03 12:33:42 UTC 
the patches repo is where unmerged patches are tracked, stored, and re-baselined. Not sure how to tickle Wayne Davison to test it. It has worked very nicely here.
Comment 4 Wayne Davison 2020-04-05 18:45:06 UTC 
I've refined the old write-devices.diff from the patches repo and included it for the upcoming release.