https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4793
------- Comment #1 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007-07-16 15:58 CST ------- (In reply to comment #0) > I know rsync is being designed around an ext3 limitation, I wouldn't consider it a "limitation" that a file only has one owner, group, and mode no matter which hard link is used to access it. However, allowing identical data blocks to be shared between files would be a nice enhancement to ext3 (or any filesystem). > however I would > prefer if there was a way to force rsync to always hardlink and then force it > to chown,chmod the files.This would make a restore operation easier and still > allow access to data from the previous backups. One obviously would have to > accept that the permissions for previous backups might be changed since that > backup took place. You can accomplish this yourself by filling the destination with hard-links from the previous backup in advance using "cp -al". You might also consider representing the source attributes in a separate file in the backup so that there is no need to use -ogp. > Does anyone else think this would this be a useful feature to have? Hm. I think it's odd to want to preserve attributes in the current backup but not care about attributes in previous backups being overwritten. I don't see a strong argument for building support for this into rsync. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.samba.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
