I tried the Apple/OpenDarwin extended rsync, but it needs to be running
on both client and server. I could not get it to compile on my Linux
server.
In contrast, this "hfsmode" patch splits the files out into
AppleDouble, and then submits the two files that result to any rsync
server. If you turn around and publish the resulting AppleDouble file
collections via NFS or SMB, then they should appear correctly on your
client Macs.
I also tried "psync", which is an rsync like this implemented in Perl,
but I had some problems with it on large transfers.
Actually, I should warn against using rsync for bulk data transfers or
backups -- I tried using rsync to manage my 100 GB volume and rsync ran
out of memory, as it holds the file list and some metadata in a cache
-- that is, don't point rsync at the root of your 100 GB filesystem if
you have lots of files! This can be worked around, of course, by
iterating over subdirs. But that's tedious and error-prone.
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