Le samedi 14 juin 2014, 20:41:14 Kevin Korb a écrit : > The difference is pretty simple. An ACL (or permissions or ownership) > change does not require the transfer of a file only a change to the > file's attributes. Therefore it does not affect the transfer size. > > When you use the cp -al then rsync method rsync doesn't pay any > attention to previous backups therefor it just changes the ACL which > affects all links to the same inode. > > Rsync --link-dest otoh cares about previous backups. It assumes you > want to have the old metadata on the old backup(s) and the new > metadata on the new backup. Since metadata applies to the inode not > the link the only way it can accomplish this is to duplicate the file > instead of linking it. Therefore, you now have 2 copies of the file > with different ACLs. This increases disk space usage without > transferring any data.
Wow, that's a clear explanation :) Thanks *a lot* ! -- François -- 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
