Just curious: why would "archive" mode not preserve hard-links (-H) ? Is there a catch in systematically using -H in backup scripts ? Thanks,
On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 04:14:54PM +0200, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:> Just curious: why would "archive" mode not preserve hard-links (-H) ?The option used to be way too expensive to be the default, so it was only enabled for people who needed that processing. It has gotten much better in the 2.6.x versions, but is still not enabled by default for historical reasons. ..wayne..