> If you want to use --link-dest, you will have to point to a place on the
> same filesystem containing the stuff you're linking.
> --link-dest=DIR create hardlinks to DIR for unchanged files
Yes, I know. But what I was expecting was the behaviour I get on i386:
rsync should recogni
tmp/rsync/unusable_link-dest/dir/foo and dir/foo are on different
filesystems. --link-dest= makes hard links - new directory entries
pointing at the same inodes. Directory entries don't have any way to
specify the device containing the filesystem. It's assumed that it's the
same device conta
Werner Augustin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> and when I try:
>
> e/ dest
> building file list ... done
> created directory dest
> ./
> dir/
> link /tmp/rsync/unusable_link-dest/dir/foo => dir/foo : Invalid cross-device link
>
> wrote 106 bytes read 20 bytes 252.00 bytes/sec
> total size is 9 s
Hi,
I've got problems with a symlink to another device in a directory used
with '--link-dest'.
I've got something like
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/rsync% ls -alR
.:
total 16
drwxr-xr-x4 augustin augustin 4096 Mar 15 12:07 ./
drwxrwxrwt4 root root 4096 Mar 15 10:56 ../
drwxr-x
