An interesting quirk

Charles Steinkuehler charles at steinkuehler.net
Sat Jul 21 15:11:57 CDT 2007


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Billy Crook wrote:
> That must be exactly it.  I remember when I formatted crypt, I did specifiy
> options.  Whereas when I formatted crypt2, I did not.  Can't check to make
> sure though.  crypt2 will be in a bank vault for 6 months. Crypt3 is in the
> works though.  Should be ready to play with by next Friday.  Im just glad it
> wasn't a filesystem error.

The other thing that can cause this are hard links, which are *NOT*
copied by default when using the -a switch to rsync.  You have to
specify --hard-links or you wind up with N actual copies of any
hardlinked files, instead of one file and N inodes.

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Charles Steinkuehler
charles at steinkuehler.net
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