sync vs. rsync (what's the dif?)

Lul2x · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 12:45 am Post subject: sync vs. rsync (what's the dif?)

Subject says it all, Thanks.
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dma · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 12:47 am Post subject:

They are currently the same thing.

Rsync is kind of deprecated (possibly due to the package "net-misc/rsync").

"emerge rsync" and "emerge net-misc/rsync" are NOT the same thing.

(although eventually "emerge rsync" might be removed as an alias.)

Sledgy · n00b Joined: 03 Apr 2003 Posts: 38

man sync
NAME
sync - flush filesystem buffers
DESCRIPTION
Force changed blocks to disk, update the super block.

:arrow:

man rsync
NAME
rsync - faster, flexible replacement for rcp
DESCRIPTION
rsync is a program that behaves in much the same way that rcp does, but has
many more options and uses the rsync remote-update protocol to greatly speed up
file transfers when the destination file already exists.

Brandy · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 2:11 am Post subject:

Moved from Portage & Programming to Duplicate Threads since this topic has already been posted:

What's diff between 'emerge sync' and 'emerge rsync'?
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