[rdiff-backup-users] Re: Suggestion for documentation change

[Michael Stucki]

Hi Dean,

> actually i think the man page is totally misleading -- --no-compare-inode
> affects *only* hardlinked files.  it doesn't affect any other files.

Well, since it solved my problem, and since mounted shares are not
hardlinked (right?) there must be some more effects...

> i committed the change below to the documentation... but honestly i'm
> leaning towards making --no-compare-inode the default and supplying a
> --compare-inode option to enable the current behaviour for people who are
> absolutely certain their dev:ino mapping won't change.

That looks pretty good, thank you!

I am not so much into system details to argue if changing the default is
good, so do what you are sure is good.

Regards, michael