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Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:53:14 -0700
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Subject: filenames containing ::, rsync and "file has vanished", ext2fsd being  used
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I have a weird problem that I cannot quite wrap my head around.

I'm in cygwin trying to rsync from /e/ to /f/,  using

rsync -Dogx -uav --delete /e/ /f/

I get a LOT of error messages of the type

file has vanished: "/e/usr/share/man/man3/Glib::Error.3pm.gz"
file has vanished: "/e/usr/share/man/man3/Gtk2::CodeGen.3pm.gz"
file has vanished: "/e/usr/share/man/man3/Gtk2::Entry.3pm.gz"

If I try to

ls /e/usr/share/man/man3/

then I *also* get lots of error messages that files such as the above
"do not exist". But of course they do exist, othwerwise ls would not
know that it should be complaining about them :). There is a whole
bunch of other files, in the same dir, NOT containing "::" in their 
names that is not being complained about.

What gives? It may be relevant that /e and /f are ext2 partitions that
are mounted using the ext2fsd package.

I do not think this is the "rsync unicode , file has vanished" problem
that I have read about on the web, since :: is not unicode.

Does anyone want to suggest a way to get around this? I think since
ls exhibits the same problem it should not be rsync's fault, but it 
may possibly relate to ext2fsd rather than cygwin.

Thanks.

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