hard links on samba shares

[Riccardo Iaconelli]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Matt McCutchen <matt at mattmccutchen.net> wrote:
> 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).

Looks like this is the problem, even if i get 2 as link count, inode
numbers differs. and i guess there is no way to ensure samba will do
hard links properly. well, such is life :\

Thanks,
-Riccardo
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