From 909fa1ad78b0bbe22cc80265edfe3d2aedccfff9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Markus Ressel Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 15:54:05 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] updated README --- README.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index bc8e905..2908008 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ This script recursively traverses all the files in a given directory. Each file Note that this process is not entirely "in-place", since a file has to be fully copied before the original is deleted. The term is used to make it clear that no additional pool (and therefore hardware) is necessary to use this script. However, this also means that you have to have enough space to create a copy of the biggest file in your target directory for it to work. At no point in time are both versions of the original file deleted. +To make sure file attributes, permissions and file content are maintained when copying the original file, all attributes and the file checksum is compared before removing the original file. Since file attributes are fully retained, it is not possible to verify if an individual file has been rebalanced. ## Prerequisites