[PATCH] --soften-links option (fwd from md@Linux.IT) Re: rsync and debian mirrors

[Mark Eichin]

> May i suggest this be more clear, along the lines of
> "Convert a hard link to a symbolic link if on the
> destination it would have to span filesystems" Along with a

Except that's overly precise -- for example, AFS doesn't permit hard
links to span *directories* even if they're on the same volume.
Though it does still give EXDEV as the error in that case, so maybe it
won't actually confuse anyone...