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2023 Sep 22
1
rsync --delete with empty source folder for fast snapshot deletion: Permissions of hardlinked files are changed to 644. Workaround?
...my case 444 became 644 again.
- Q: Which rsync version, distro and file system do you use?
- Q: Does my attached script reproduce the permission change?
- Q: Did my script attached to the initial post here reproduce the permission change?
PS: In my case the attached script shows (excerpt):
./setup_cp_al.sh
Tested with
- rsync version 3.2.7 protocol version 31
- ext4 file system
- Ubuntu 22.04
File stats BEFORE rsync --delete:
File: snapshot2/read_only.txt
Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 regular empty file
Device: 10305h/66309d Inode: 17571021 Links: 3
Access: (0444...
2023 Sep 22
2
rsync --delete with empty source folder for fast snapshot deletion: Permissions of hardlinked files are changed to 644. Workaround?
So I decided to do a quick test using the Linux kernel source tree since
it has lots of files. I duplicated a tree, used 'find . -type f -exec
chmod 444 {} +' to make read only files for rsync to want to chmod, then
used cp -al to make several duplicate trees using hard linked files. An
rm -rf on one such tree took .97 seconds while an rsync deletion took
1.25 seconds. Clearly I