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pagasus
2003 Jun 30
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--link-dest non-optimal without --owner (or when not root)
If I run rsync 2.5.6 not as root, so that the -o (--owner) and
-g (--group) flags don't work, then files that are not owned by me in
the source directory will not be linked by --link-dest.
When rsync looks in my link-dest, it sees a file owned by me. When it
compares that with the source file not owned by me, then rsync thinks it
cannot skip that file, and no hard link results. However,