Commit 3e578a19 authored by Andrew Tridgell's avatar Andrew Tridgell

documented --delete disabling on IO errors

parent b6062654
......@@ -403,9 +403,11 @@ Still, it is probably easy to get burnt with this option. The moral
of the story is to use the -n option until you get used to the
behavior of --delete.
NOTE: It also may delete files on the destination if the sending side
can't open them or stat them. This is a bug that hopefully will be
fixed in a future release.
If the sending side detects any IO errors then the deletion of any
files at the destination will be automatically disabled. This is to
prevent temporary filesystem failures (such as NFS errors) on the
sending side causing a massive deletion of files on the
destination.
dit(bf(--force)) This options tells rsync to delete directories even if
they are not empty. This applies to both the --delete option and to
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