not always making hard links?

[John Van Essen]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Paul Slootman <paul at debian.org> wrote:
>
> I'm using 2.6.3pre1 to transfer a rather large Debian archive
> (126GB, more than 30 million files). It contains about 450 daily
> snapshots, where unchanged files are hardlinked between the snapshots
> (so many files have hunderds of links).
> 
> It's been running for some time now, and I found that while it's far
> from done, it's already used 165GB on the receiving end. Investigation
> shows that hardlinked files are no longer hardlinked...
....
> The sender is the following command line:
> 
>     rsync -avz --bwlimit=5000 /extra/pub/ 192.168.1.73::pub

To preserve hardlinks, you need to include the -H option (it's
not implied in the -a option).
-- 
        John Van Essen  Univ of MN Alumnus  <vanes002 at umn.edu>