On 8/1/2011 10:29 AM, Robert Nichols wrote:
and I would add:
* Correct handling of hard-linked files. This is currently broken in
two places. (1) During a verify operation, rdiff-backup will
complain about a missing checksum for each link other than the one
that appears first in the mirror_metadata file. (2) If you add more
hard links to a file that already had multiple hard links, then a
restore operation may result in those links being divided into two
or more groups, each with its own, independent copy of the file.
FYI, I had submitted some patches which I think fix the problems
with hard-linked files:
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?26848
Auditing the database to detect and correct item (2) is decidedly
non-trivial since the reverse-diffs of the metadata file are also
affected.
The patches won't correct any issues with previous backups in a
repository, but they should correct the repository going forward.
I've been using the patches for some time now without problems.
I would be interested in having some other people test them out.
--Joe
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