On a recent Google Cloud Platform CoreOS VM, the command gsutil rsync -r gs://some-bucket-here dest fails with:
CommandException: arg (dest) does not name a directory, bucket, or bucket subdir.
$ gsutil --version
gsutil version: 4.28
The result is the same whether source or destination is local, ie copying to or from a bucket:
$ mkdir test
$ ls -al test
total 16
drwxr-xr-x. 2 user user 4096 Nov 29 05:53 .
drwxr-x---. 6 user user 4096 Nov 29 05:53 ..
$ gsutil -m rsync -r gs://some-bucket-here test
CommandException: arg (test) does not name a directory, bucket, or bucket subdir.
$ touch test/blah
$ ls -al test
total 20
drwxr-xr-x. 2 user user 4096 Nov 29 05:54 .
drwxr-x---. 6 user user 4096 Nov 29 05:53 ..
-rw-r--r--. 1 user user 0 Nov 29 05:54 blah
$ gsutil -m rsync -r test gs://some-bucket-here
CommandException: arg (test) does not name a directory, bucket, or bucket subdir.
Is this something to do with the way CoreOS handles the root file system?
Additional data:
gsutil cp -r gs://some-bucket-here test at least pretends to copy the files, iterating over bucket contents, but nothing is written to disk.
