[Csync2] Running "csync2 -x ; csync2 -TT" sometimes shows empty diffs

[Andreas J. Koenig]

>>>>> On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:34:39 +0200, Farzad FARID <ffarid at pragmatic-source.com> said:

  > On server A : run "csync2 -x ; csync2 -TT" every 10 minutes

  > [...] First, I supposed that "csync2 -TT" should never display
  > anything because I just pushed all the changes form A to B with
  > the "-x" option. But, from time to time, the cron on server A
  > displays an empty diff:
  > [...]
  > sometimes the cron even displays differences between the 2 lease
  > files. Is it possible that a write to the lease file happened just
  > between "csync2 -x" and "csync2 -TT"?

Of course! You must always be prepared that something happens while
you are doing something. It's called "multitasking".

  > Does "-TT" check the csync2 databases on both sides before
  > comparing files? And is "-TT" a CPU consuming command?

Section 5.4 of the paper.pdf file says

    5.4 Comparing the hosts

    The csync2 -T command can be used to compare the local database
    with the database of the remote hosts. Note that this command
    compares the databases and not the filesystems - so make sure that
    the databases are up-to-date on all hosts before running csync2 -T
    and run csync2 -cr / if you are unsure.


Regards,
-- 
andreas