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2007 Apr 26
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rsync mirroring and hardlink issues
...some of those repositories are hosting
related files, I'm using the hardlink utility[1] in order to save disk
space.
However, I've noticed an issue that may lead to potential file metadata
inconsistencies when using hardlink.
Consider the following scenario:
- two repositories (rep_a and rep_b) are mirrored that initially have a
file in common.
- after rsync mirrored the files, there are two identical copies in my
mirror
- hardlink detects those copies and links them together
- the file attributes (permissions, ownership, mtime, etc.) of a
hardlinked file in rep_a change upstream
- rsync...