8:32am, Greg Smith wrote:
> Thanks to all for the replies. I've read all the backuppc docs and
> realized that hard links were an integral part of the design so I thought
> the answer to my question would be "no" but thought I'd ask. Since the
> principle reason for using hardlinks in backuppc is to use space more
> efficently, I was hoping that there was some hack (e.g., setting
> HardLinkMax to 1) that would work but use more disk space.
>
> There is no h/w interface into the NAS other than two 1GB network links
> (no iSCSI) and I don't think (I've got a call into the tech support to
> confirm) that it supports NFS. The only way that I know of mounting the
> device is via samba/cifs. Since both samba & cifs support hard links it
> might be the device does too with some undocumented setting, we'll see
> what tech support has to say.
>
iSCSI is software, not hardware ("i"nternet SCSI)--so an ethernet port is
all you need (from a hardware standpoint).
If you can't get hard links over samba/cifs, I doubt you'll be able to have
them through NFS. It sounds like the backing filesystem doesn't support
them.
Just what make/model is this creature, anyway?
> In the meantime, I'm taking Dan's suggestion of a loopback fs.
>
loopback is what my money's on...
Paul
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