Tips and tricks
[Documentation for users]

This is a list of tips and tricks that you might find useful. More...

This is a list of tips and tricks that you might find useful.

Seeing the verbose status, but only changed entries

Sometimes the status meta-data changed is not enough - the differentiation between mtime and the permission attributes is needed.

For that the command line option -v is used; but this verbose mode also prints all entries, not only the changed.

To solve that the filter option gets set; with the value none (to reset the mask), and then with the wanted mask - to restore the default the string "text,meta" could be set.

Example:

      $ fsvs status -v -f none,text,meta
      $ fsvs status -v -f none,text,meta /etc
      $ fsvs status -v -f none,text,meta some/dir another_dir and_a_file

Performance points

Some effort has been taken to get FSVS as fast as possible.

With 1.1.17 the default for checking for changes on files was altered, to do a MD5-check of files with a changed modification time but the same size (to avoid printing a "?" as status); if that affects your use-case badly you can use the option to get the old (fast) behavior.

Please note that not the whole file has to be read - the first changed manber block (with averaged 128kB) terminates the check.