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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Linus kernel tree corrupt?
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Petr Baudis wrote:
> 
> It _is_ unsafe for individual objects, and your packfile will be corrupt
> if you break it in the middle and not have --whole-file turned on, I
> assume. It would be ideal if we could make rsync allow resuming download
> of the file if interrupted, but not under the final name but in that
> hidden file it uses.
> 

I think if you just don't give it --partial you're fine (rsync always 
creates a second copy, --partial decides if a partial file should be 
thrown away or not.)

	-hpa