https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8456
--- Comment #3 from Kevin Korb <rs...@sanitarium.net> 2011-09-14 15:44:28 UTC --- The simple fact is that two links to the same inode are not 2 different files but the same file. Their attributes by definition are the same. They cannot have different time stamps. If you tell rsync to synchronize time stamps then it will update the time stamp in the target. It cannot do that and maintain the time stamp in the link-dest (which is read only as far as rsync is concerned) at the same time. This is simply impossible. Note that if you do not synchronize timestamps the result would be pretty much the same as --ignore-times which would probably be a bigger problem for you. The only thing rsync could possibly do would be to add an option to allow for minor changes to affect the files within the link-dest (and probably other previously used link-dests). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.samba.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug. -- 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
