rsync - Jul 2017 - [Bug 12916] New: when rsync fails to chown, it gives up and does not set timestamp

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12916

            Bug ID: 12916
           Summary: when rsync fails to chown, it gives up and does not
                    set timestamp
           Product: rsync
           Version: 3.1.3
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: minor
          Priority: P5
         Component: core
          Assignee: wayned at samba.org
          Reporter: iank at fsf.org
        QA Contact: rsync-qa at samba.org

If I do

rsync -ot VFAT_FS_MOUNT

It outputs

rsync: chown "SOME_PATH" failed: Operation not permitted (1)

And it's timestamp is the current time, not the source time as specified
by -t. Rsync should not give up on setting the time just because it
couldn't set the owner. rsync -t works fine.

I tested on git master from today, ce854cf021cb7207ee504c6badf97b4ffbb2021a

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--- Comment #1 from Kevin Korb <rsync at sanitarium.net> ---
If you mount your FAT filesystems with the quiet option the FAT driver will
just ignore the operations it can't do instead of throwing fatal errors at
you.
 This will resolve problems in many tools including rsync.

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--- Comment #2 from Ian Kelling <iank at fsf.org> ---
Great tip. If we can solve it that would be
good too.

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