I was under the impression that dirvish uses hard links. no?

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On Sep 3, 2010, at 4:47, Noel Kelly <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I have been using Dirvish very happily for years now but have hit a snag 
> trying to utilise a WD NAS box.
> 
> It seems their NFS implementation (using BusyBox) doesn't handle symlinks:
> 
> sync: link "/mnt/feNAS/ABC.QBW" => /mnt/feNAS/ABC.QBW failed: Invalid 
> cross-device link (18)
> 
> I found a reference here from a couple of chaps having similar issues:
> 
> http://community.wdc.com/t5/WD-ShareSpace/Incremental-backup-of-linux-machine-on-NFS-partition-of/m-p/33095/highlight/true
> 
> The filesystems on the WD box are all formatted as ext3 and running tests 
> using rsync --link-dest in an ssh session on the box works fine so I think it 
> must be something to do with their NFS implementation that is causing the 
> issue and the lack of response from WD implies it isn't something there is a 
> quick fix for.
> 
> There is nothing obvious in the WD NFS daemon config or the exports:
> 
> start() {
>     echo -n "Starting NFS services: "
>     /usr/sbin/exportfs -r
>     echo "OK"
> 
>     echo -n "Starting NFS daemon: "
>     /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd
>     echo "OK"
> 
>     echo -n "Starting NFS mountd: "
>     /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd
>     echo "OK"
>     touch /var/lock/nfs
> }    
> 
> exports: /nfs/Public 
> *(ro,all_squash,sync,insecure,anonuid=65534,anongid=65534)
> 
> (I have configured dirvish with 'UNSET permissions'  to stop it trying to 
> chown with these uid/gid set.)
> 
> I'll try mounting the box using smb but just so you are aware these WD NASs 
> don't play well,
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 
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