Kevin Korb via rsync <rsync@lists.samba.org> wrote:
> Unfortunately the hard links are the problem. In order to keep
> them straight rsync has to remember the details of every file it
> finds with a link count >1 making it grow and grow.
I _hope_ it is only remembering the source and destination inode
numbers, and pruning that list when possible[*], as opposed to
storing all of "the details" for the duration of the operation.
[*] If the source file has (say) 3 hardlinks, it can be deleted
from the list as soon as the 3rd hardlink has been copied.
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