/home/<user>/.gvfs causing problems for rsync

[Johann Spies]

On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 12:57:44AM +1100, Karl Auer wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 15:45 +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> > Thanks to all the input and answers to questions that I did not ask.
> 
> What happens when you use only the --delete option with --exclude
> ".gvfs/"?
building file list ... 
rsync: readlink "/home/js/.gvfs" failed: Permission denied (13)
1129298 files to consider
IO error encountered -- skipping file deletion



> are likely to be causing the problem. And in this case the three most
> obvious candidates were --delete, --delete-excluded and -r!
> 

The problem is not with rsync but with .gvfs.  There are many other
excludes in my list including some dotted directories.  The problem is
that rsync cannot handle .gvfs - even when it is excluded.

BTW, removing the -r also did not make any difference to my problem.

Regards
Johann






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