--recursive and -H

[Rob Thompson]

Hello,

I have a question regarding using the --recursive option when preserving hard link with -H.  How is it, that these two options are compatible when used together?  I would think that RSYNC would need to see all files/inodes before transferring, to preserve hard links.  But yet it still starts transferring before reading the entire file list.  

Don't get me wrong, this is excellent as there are 10's of millions of files and it would take days and tons of memory to do it without the --recursive option.  I'm just curious about if the large (15TB) backup I am currently running is actually preserving hard links, or if I'm going to see in a few days that it is not actually preserving them?

Thanks,
-Rob

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