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From: | Dave Kempe |
Subject: | Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Windows Backing up to Linux storing tiny diffs for every file. Any ideas? |
Date: | Sat, 02 Aug 2008 22:48:28 +0200 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) |
Andrew Ferguson wrote:
Josh, does Windows even support hardlinks properly? The problem is that rdiff-backup uses the inode numbers to keep track of hardlinks and since the inode numbers are all zero on Windows, rdiff-backup believes the file has changed. (iirc) The relevant function is Hardlink.rorp_eq(src_rorp, dest_rorp) which is Hardlink.py:86Windows does have symlink/hardlink like functionality on NTFS 5.0 and on. However I have never seen anyone use it, and I don't think its worth supporting for the difficulty it might present. I would suggest its safe to assume windows does not support hardlinks or softlinks at this stage and leave it at that.
Here is a great page discussing the feature (if you could call it that) http://shell-shocked.org/article.php?id=284 dave
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