I was under the impression that dirvish uses hard links. no? -- A bug magnet
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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Dirvish mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
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