Thanks, Wayne, very helpful, and good to know officially that it has changed from earlier versions.
- Bryan On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 20:05, Wayne Davison <way...@samba.org> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:30, Bryan Hoyt | Brush Technology < > br...@brush.co.nz> wrote: > >> Is this because --size-only doesn't affect the behaviour of --link-dest, >> but only the transfer comparison? >> > > Exactly. It is just telling rsync to tweak its "quick check" algorithm for > files that don't need to be transfered. It doesn't specify that you don't > want to preserve the modify time of any file that gets copied. > > I've worked around this issue by specifying "--no-times" on the rsync >> command line. >> > > Which is the correct solution. Without disabling time preservation, rsync > will not hard-link an incoming file with one that doesn't have the same > modify time because it could not change (preserve) the modify time on the > resulting file without affecting the file in the link-dest hierarchy. This > same rule applies for all preserved attributes (groups, ownership, > permissions, etc.). This is a bug-fix from earlier rsync versions that got > this wrong. > > ..wayne.. > -- PS. Check out the Brush newsletter: *Subscribe or read our previous newsletters* <http://brush.co.nz/newsletters> Bryan Hoyt, *Web Development Manager* -- Brush Technology *Ph:* +64 3 741 1204 *Mobile:* +64 21 238 7955 *Web:* brush.co.nz
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