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this my scenario: all commands are local rsync -a file1 file2 cp -l file2 file3 chown some_other_existing_user:group file1 rsync -a file1 file2 now file2 and file3 are both hard links and permissions are shared in both, versus rsync creating new file2. Desired behavior is to create new file if permissions have changed versus changing file2 in place. Is there any workaround for this. Thank you very much,...