Calling rsync testers...

[Tom Diehl]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Charles R. Anderson wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 09:49:46AM -0500, Tom Diehl wrote:
> > Ummm, maybe use -H
> 
> That won't work to preserve *local* hardlinks, and it is specfically
> recommended that it not be used in the fedora wiki.

That does not necessarily make it right, but in this case it might be.

> > Instead if going through the mess you did to create the hardlinks, you could
> > simply run the hardlinks program over the trees.
> 
> Then I would need twice the space temporarily, until the hardlinks
> program was run.

The problem is if the master site is not hard linked then your site will
not be hard linked. That is what rsync does. If the master site is hard linked
then using -H is the only way to preserve them, in spite of what the WIKI says.
Since I do not mirror legacy I do not know if the master site is hardlinked or
not. If it is not IMO it should be. :-)

HTH,

........Tom