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Clarify what extraneous hard link are.
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Wayne Davison
<wayned@samba.org>
Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:19:23 +0000
(07:19 -0800)
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Wayne Davison
<wayned@samba.org>
Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:19:52 +0000
(07:19 -0800)
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destination exactly matches that on the source. Cases in which the
destination may end up with extra hard links include the following:
quote(itemization(
destination may end up with extra hard links include the following:
quote(itemization(
- it() If the destination contains extraneous hard-linked files, rsync will not
+ it() If the destination contains extraneous hard-links (more linking than
+ what is present in the source file list), the copying algorithm will not
break them explicitly. However, if one or more of the paths have content
differences, the normal file-update process will break those extra links
(unless you are using the bf(--inplace) option).
break them explicitly. However, if one or more of the paths have content
differences, the normal file-update process will break those extra links
(unless you are using the bf(--inplace) option).