not always making hard links?

[Paul Slootman]

On Fri 10 Sep 2004, John Van Essen wrote:
> > 
> >     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).

Yes, I just checked out what -a does exactly.
Why oh why does -a not preserve hard links?


BTW, the hanging rsync process may be related in some way to a
/dev/console (serial console) that's hung... ignore that for the time
being.


Paul Slootman