Which rsync version?

Matt McCutchen hashproduct+rsync at gmail.com
Thu Aug 2 15:12:38 GMT 2007


On 8/2/07, Charles Marcus <CMarcus at media-brokers.com> wrote:
> > If those files don't have hardlinks (or you're not interested
> > in preserving hardlinks), you can greatly improve performance
> > by trying the 3.0.0 cvs snapshot.
>
> Which suggests that the current CVS version won't preserve hardlinks?

No.  The issue is that asking to preserve hardlinks turns off
incremental recursion mode, which was what gives the performance
benefit.

Matt


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