[Csync2] csync2 not syncing symlinks?!

[Wolfram Schlich]

* Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg at linbit.com> [2008-02-21 17:48]:
> what you basically ask for is the "do-what-I-mean" command.
> good luck implementing it ;-)

Oh, does it differ much from the do-what-I-say parameter previously
implemented in DRBD?! ;-)))

> > A big fat notice in the csync2.cfg documentation would be the minimum
> > improvement though (and the documentation as a whole is... well, not
> > optimal, to say the least :>).
> 
> well,
> since you just now volunteered,
> thanks for improving.

Since the only real piece of documentation regarding the abstract
funcionality of csync2 is that (in)famous "paper.pdf" that even
the README and the manpage point to, I am unsure how resp. where
I should add my notice...
So, I just modified the csync2.cfg that's shipped with the tarball.
-- 
Regards,
Wolfram Schlich <wschlich at gentoo.org>
Gentoo Linux * http://dev.gentoo.org/~wschlich/
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diff -urN csync2-1.34.orig/csync2.cfg csync2-1.34/csync2.cfg
--- csync2-1.34.orig/csync2.cfg	2007-07-24 23:04:18.000000000 +0200
+++ csync2-1.34/csync2.cfg	2008-02-21 23:24:25.496844062 +0100
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-
 # Csync2 Example Configuration File
 # ---------------------------------
 #
@@ -12,6 +11,22 @@
 #
 # 	key /etc/csync2.key_mygroup;
 #
+# 	#
+# 	# WARNING:
+# 	# You CANNOT use paths containing a symlink
+# 	# component in include/exclude options!
+# 	#
+# 	# Here is a real-life example:
+# 	# Suppose you have some 64bit Linux systems
+# 	# and /usr/lib/ocf is what you want to keep
+#	# in sync. On 64bit Linux systems, /usr/lib
+# 	# is usually a symlink to /usr/lib64.
+# 	# This does not work:
+# 	#   include /usr/lib/ocf;
+# 	# But this does work:
+# 	#   include /usr/lib64/ocf;
+# 	#
+# 
 # 	include /etc/apache;
 # 	include %homedir%/bob;
 # 	exclude %homedir%/bob/temp;
@@ -26,6 +41,7 @@
 # 		do-local;
 # 	}
 #
+# 	# The backup-directory needs to be created first!
 # 	backup-directory /var/backups/csync2;
 # 	backup-generations 3;
 #
@@ -37,4 +53,3 @@
 # 	on host[12]: /export/users;
 # 	on *:        /home;
 # }
-