DO NOT REPLY [Bug 7618] symlinks and --link-dest

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Sat Aug 14 15:32:18 MDT 2010


https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7618





------- Comment #10 from matt at mattmccutchen.net  2010-08-14 16:32 CST -------
(In reply to comment #9)
> in this case, why problem occurs only
> when rsync server is hpux? I would expect the same behaviour with Linux rsync
> servers too. But no, symlinks from Linuxes are copied only once, even if in
> --link-dest case.

Good point.  That would appear to rule out a broken lutimes.

Please pass -i to find out why the symlink is not hard-linked when pulling from
the HP-UX server.  (I really should have suggested this the first time around,
before starting to speculate.)


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