Emilin Amy
LOSF（Lots of small files）transfer is a classical senario. I have tried rsync with 4k X 100,000,000 files' direcotry. It works well and its function of synchonisation.
I would like to work on this issue.
> Re the issue title, I would describe it as an uninitialized pointer. (It might or might not equate to `NULL`.) True, static variable(s) were initialized while prelimenary stage.
To check if the transmition is correct. - Use tools such as md5sum or sha256sum) compare the checksums of source and destination directory 1. find /path/to/source -type f -exec md5sum...