[ITP] rsnapshot 1.3.0 -- A local and remote filesystem snapshot utility

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Mar  3 19:07, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Jari Aalto wrote:
> 
> > ... rsnapshot makes extensive use of hard links, so disk space is only
> > used when absolutely necessary...
> 
> This will not be true on some non-NTFS filesystems (e.g., FAT).  Perhaps a
> note in the Cygwin-specific README to that regard is in order?  FWIW, I
> would also change the ldesc to indicate that hard links will only be used
> on NTFS and whatever other systems support them (Corinna?).

FAT and FAT32 afaik.  Samba is treated as NTFS, NFS depends on the
underlying FS, don't know about other exotic FS.


Corinna

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