link-dest question revisted

[Paul Slootman]

On Thu 01 Jul 2010, doug at safeport.com wrote:

> In checking inodes I can find many files that did not change on the
> server. E.g.:
> 
> artemis:/mnt# diff 201003/newharbor/home/allvid/allvid.tgz 201007/newharbor/home/home/allvid/allvid.tgz
> artemis:/mnt# ls -il 201003/newharbor/home/allvid/allvid.tgz
> 146490838 -rw-r--r--  1 root  2174  70764 Oct  8  2008
> 201003/newharbor/home/allvid/allvid.tgz
> artemis:/mnt# ls -il 201007/newharbor/home/home/allvid/allvid.tgz
> 151176421 -rw-r--r--  2 root  2174  70764 Oct  8  2008
> 201007/newharbor/home/home/allvid/allvid.tgz

You would need to run rsync with the --itemize-changes option to see why
rsync considers these files to be different.


Paul