hard links on samba shares
Matt McCutchen
matt at mattmccutchen.net
Fri Oct 23 03:36:34 MDT 2009
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 11:31 +0200, Paul Slootman wrote:
> On Fri 23 Oct 2009, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 09:15 +0200, Riccardo Iaconelli wrote:
> > >
> > > [root at popper linksys]# rsync -avz --hard-links test/ test2/
> > > sending incremental file list
> > > ./
> > > file1
> > > file2
>
> > > Is this a bug or just samba being not reliable for hard links? :-)
> >
> > Probably the latter. You can always strace rsync to check that it is
> > issuing the link(2) call and see what the result is.
>
> Rsync is not even trying the link(2) call, as it doesn't recognize that
> the files are linked; the output would have been:
>
> ./
> file1
> file2 => file1
You're right. Somehow I was thinking that rsync might silently adjust
its output if hard linking fails, but that doesn't make much sense and
indeed that is not how rsync behaves (I tested).
--
Matt
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