[Unison-hackers] [unison-svn] r210 - trunk/src

[Jerome Vouillon]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 08:17:50AM -0400, Seth Teller wrote:
> the client is windows XP; the server is linux.
> 
> fastcheck is set to true.
> 
> are you suggesting that fastcheck is disabled, even
> though i've enabled it as an option?

It is possible that it is not working properly.  You can check this by
running Unison with the "-debug update+" option.  You will get the
following line each time fastcheck fails:

    [server: update+]   Double-check possibly updated file

The reason could be that the filesystem on the server does not
associate a fixed inode number to each file.  Then, you will have
lines such as the following with inode numbers that do not match
(here, 242105 vs 246101).

    [server: update] checkContentsChange: stamp is inode (242105) / archStamp is inode (242105) / info.inode (246101)

If this is indeed you problem, a workaround is to use the "pretendwin"
option, which tell unison to ignore the inode number.

-- Jerome