On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 17:20 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: > I noticed that rsync is happy to hard-link a device node from a > --link-dest dir even if its mtime differs from that of the source device > node and --times is given. Is this behavior expected? It seems to > break the rule that a difference in preserved attributes disqualifies a > hard link.
The same strange behavior happens for regular files if --size-only is passed. The underlying issue is that unchanged_attrs compares all preserved attributes except mtimes. Why are mtimes omitted? Matt -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
