I have a removable disc (IOMEGA REV), and I want to use cygwin to take
backups using cp -l and rsync as per
http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/
This requires hard links to work, which they do on the NTFS partitions,
but the IOMEGA has a UDF file system and they don't seem to work there
(revealed by ls -i).
I believe UDF supports hard links
(http://www.k-par.com/pdfs/resources/whitepaper/DVDWhitePaper.pdf), so
maybe its just Cygwin that does not allow them?
Can anyone help?
Some additional background:
My first thought was to reformat the IOMEGA to NTFS but I found I could
not. IOMEGA's web site says the following:
*
*Why does the Iomega REV drive use the UDF file system for PCs?*
The UDF file system is the file system of choice as it overcomes many
of the limitations of other popular file systems. The FAT32 file
system has a 30GB format limit and a 4GB file size limitation. The
NTFS file system does not support removable media. UDF also allows
Iomega REV disks to use advanced ECC error correction on its media.
*I am not sure if that claim is true, but I have not been able to find a
way to format the disc to NTFS.
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