Re: Rsync hard-links devices with different mtimes despite -t: expected?

2007-11-03 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 17:20 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: I noticed that rsync is happy to hard-link a device node from a --link-dest dir even if its mtime differs from that of the source device node and --times is given. Is this behavior expected? It seems to break the rule that a difference

Re: Rsync hard-links devices with different mtimes despite -t: expected?

2007-11-03 Thread Wayne Davison
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 05:20:30PM -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: I noticed that rsync is happy to hard-link a device node from a --link-dest dir even if its mtime differs from that of the source device node and --times is given. Is this behavior expected? Not really. It doesn't hurt anything

Rsync hard-links devices with different mtimes despite -t: expected?

2007-10-30 Thread Matt McCutchen
I noticed that rsync is happy to hard-link a device node from a --link-dest dir even if its mtime differs from that of the source device node and --times is given. Is this behavior expected? It seems to break the rule that a difference in preserved attributes disqualifies a hard link. To see