Andrew Ferguson wrote:
Josh, does Windows even support hardlinks properly? The problem is
that rdiff-backup uses the inode numbers to keep track of hardlinks
and since the inode numbers are all zero on Windows, rdiff-backup
believes the file has changed. (iirc) The relevant function is
Hardlink.rorp_eq(src_rorp, dest_rorp) which is Hardlink.py:86
Windows does have symlink/hardlink like functionality on NTFS 5.0 and
on. However I have never seen anyone use it, and I don't think its worth
supporting for the difficulty it might present. I would suggest its safe
to assume windows does not support hardlinks or softlinks at this stage
and leave it at that.
Here is a great page discussing the feature (if you could call it that)
http://shell-shocked.org/article.php?id=284
dave
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