Hello,
I found that the cp command acts "sub-optimal" when copying hard-linked
files of the same name from several directories to one target directory, it
first copies the files then removes them. I cannot see how that can be the
intended behaviour. Please fix this.
best regards
Steffen Zahn
I think you'll find this was reported 3 years ago..
"bug#10471: Severe or critical - deletes existing files and leaves
nothing. (cp)"
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2015-04/msg1.html
Unfortunately it was closed it out w/the reason that it was a
"cygwin/windows-only"
Hello,
the bug was observed on Linux this time. Unfortunately I was hit with the
bug when backing up several large photo directories with hard-links to one
target directory on an external drive. So it was not obvious for me at
first, that something was going wrong.
>From my point of view (without
Steffen Zahn wrote:
it should be easy to repair
Really? Without significantly affecting performance in the usual case? Let's
see a patch.
severity 20775 wishlist
retitle 20775 cp: improve hardlink dups handling with "cp -a -u"
stop
With no further comments in more than 3 years,
I'm marking this as a "wish list" item.
-assaf
