On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 09:15 +0200, Riccardo Iaconelli wrote: > I'm encountering a bug with samba shares, rsync and hard links. I was trying > to investigate why on my "linksys" samba share i wouldn't get any hard link > transferred and rsyncs to it would take forever. To keep a long story short, > here's the output of the command, which should be pretty explanatory :-) > > mount says that: > //192.168.0.105/DISK on /samba/linksys type cifs (rw,mand) > > > [r...@popper linksys]# ls -lah test/* > -rw-rw-r-- 2 502 501 4 2009-10-23 08:53 test/file1 > -rw-rw-r-- 2 502 501 4 2009-10-23 08:53 test/file2 > > [r...@popper linksys]# rsync -avz --hard-links test/ test2/ > sending incremental file list > ./ > file1 > file2 > > sent 146 bytes received 53 bytes 398.00 bytes/sec > total size is 8 speedup is 0.04 > > [r...@popper linksys]# ls -lah test2/* > -rw-rw-r-- 1 502 501 4 2009-10-23 08:53 test2/file1 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 502 501 4 2009-10-23 08:53 test2/file2 > > Is this a bug or just samba being not reliable for hard links? :-)
Probably the latter. You can always strace rsync to check that it is issuing the link(2) call and see what the result is. -- Matt -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
