I am using rsync on two mounted directory:
the command works as expected. But suddenly I umounted the destination and mounted again.
Rsync start to copy again (!) some (!) files. (not everything just some files.) e.g.:
in summary:
BEFORE umount every files were copied
AFTER the umount/mount only some of them dropped into the copy file list. (Not total directories, just some files. Even if there are 100 files in the directory he wants copy only 10 again.)

Could somebody help me what is this and how to fix?

Is either filesystem fat32? Check the rsync man page for modify-window

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Thanks for this trick. I have checked the files on source and destionation side and found that there is 1 second difference. Adding a --modify-window=5 (to be on the safe side ) option solved the problem.

BUT!

My question is why? what happened?

I have done the rsync again and checked the files. Every time was identical (no 1 sec delay). So rsync did his work as expected. But what happens when I umount and mount the device? Why this 1 sec difference come into alive? When? Is it a driver problem? (I smell some rounding should be the root case.) But why only after umount?

Could you help to understand this behavior, please!

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...(v=vs.85).aspx

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