Hi Greg, It isn't possible -- hard links are read and created as normal files by the Globus tools.
Mike On 2/18/2017 7:59 PM, greg whynott wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a method to exclude hardlinks from being transferred which > exist within the data set to be transferred, yet are recreated on the > other end? (using url-copy or any other tool) > > An example. In the below scenario only two files would actually cross > the wire, file1.gz and subdir/file1.gz. file2.gz would be detected as > a hardlink and excluded, file2.gz's hardlink would be recreated on the > remote end. > > cp /opt/xfer/file1.gz /home/globus/xfer/file1.gz > cp /opt/xfer/file1.gz /home/globus/xfer/subdir/file1.gz > ln /home/globus/xfer/file1.gz /home/globus/xfer/file2.gz > > > cheers, > greg > >
