I recently noticed a huge spike in dirvish network usage and traced it to files whose permissions had been changed. (with rsync v2.5.6)
I understand and agree that a --link-dest copy of a source file cannot be hardlinked to, but couldn't a simple file copy be done from the link-dest directory and then the permissions/ownership be changed of that new copy?
I think that this would reduce network usage by increasing the value of the link-dest files. In some cases (chown/chmod -R, etc), the difference would be immense.
What do people think? And any guidance on where I (or someone else!) might start changing the code?
Thanks much, Bert
PS - I've been using dirvish for a month or so and love the way it packages the rsync snapshotting concept! Thanks!
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