[Rdiff-backup-bugs] [bug #20528] rdiff-backup --compare-full fails with big directories

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                 Summary: rdiff-backup --compare-full fails with big
directories
                 Project: rdiff-backup
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Thursday 07/19/2007 at 04:36 UTC
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

rdiff-backup 1.1.12 on gentoo/x86 bails out with a python exception
indicating too many files are open when you attempt to do a full compare on a
directory containing thousands of files.

INSTRUCTIONS TO REPRODUCE:
1. Make a directory with ~ 5000 files (mine has about 5320, each a few megs a
pop)
2. rdiff-backup to another directory (I used an external usb drive, XFS
filesystem)
3. 'rdiff-backup --compare-full' the resultant directories

SUGGESTED FIX:
I've attached a diff that fixes the problem for me.

Thanks for writing a great piece of software.
Andrew




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File Attachments:


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Date: Thursday 07/19/2007 at 04:36 UTC  Name:
rdiff-backup-fix-open-files.diff.txt  Size: 732B   By: None
suggested patch to fix problem
<http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=13390>

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