On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 11:31 +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Fri 23 Oct 2009, Matt McCutchen wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 09:15 +0200, Riccardo Iaconelli wrote: > > > > > > [r...@popper linksys]# rsync -avz --hard-links test/ test2/ > > > sending incremental file list > > > ./ > > > file1 > > > 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. > > Rsync is not even trying the link(2) call, as it doesn't recognize that > the files are linked; the output would have been: > > ./ > file1 > file2 => file1
You're right. Somehow I was thinking that rsync might silently adjust its output if hard linking fails, but that doesn't make much sense and indeed that is not how rsync behaves (I tested). -- 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
