On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: > Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote: > > > > NTFS won't work. BackupPC needs a file system that supports hard links. > > > > NTFS and ntfs-3g supports hard links. > > > > man ntfs-3g: > > > > ntfs-3g is an NTFS driver, which can create, remove, rename, move > > files, directories, hard links, and streams; ... > > ^^^^^^^^^^ > > NTFS might support some kind of links,
NTFS supports many kind of "links", one of them is exactly the hard link you think about: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/fsutil_hardlink.mspx?mfr=true http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_link http://www.flexhex.com/docs/articles/hard-links.phtml You can also test this out yourself purely on Linux (or OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD) without having Windows installed or any NTFS partition: http://ntfs-3g.org/quality.html#howtotest > but I don't believe they are the same kind of links as created by the ln > command on Linux. Or are they? They are. It's a very important core feature of NTFS which is used by several features, e.g. the support for different name spaces (posix, win32, dos, etc). Szaka ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
