Ralph Corderoy <ra...@inputplus.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> > What if I change the kernel and prevent ctime-changes if only st_nlink
> > was changed?
>
> Wouldn't it be easier, and have less unknown impact, to change the
> program making the hard links to read-link-write ctime, preserving it?
If you did change the kernel to not change ctime in case that a new link
is established to a file, the ctime for the new name would be old as well since
there is only one inode for the file names.
As a result, your incremental backup did not include the new name.
Jörg
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