[Rdiff-backup-bugs] [bug #27391] "rdiff-backup --verify" erroneously warns of missing SHA1 digests for hardlinked files

[Daniel Richard G.]

URL:
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                 Summary: "rdiff-backup --verify" erroneously warns of
missing SHA1 digests for hardlinked files
                 Project: rdiff-backup
            Submitted by: iskunk
            Submitted on: Mon 07 Sep 2009 08:01:30 AM GMT
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

This is with 1.2.5, but I don't see anything in the changelogs to suggest
that this has been addressed.

When verifying a repository, rdiff-backup fails to take hardlinked files into
account. (As you know, these files only have the SHA1 digest recorded once in
the metadata; the other entries have the inode/device information, but no
hash.)

The end result is that some rather confusing (if ultimately harmless)
warnings are printed out:

$ rdiff-backup --verify /srv/backup
Warning: Cannot find SHA1 digest for file
var/log/ntpstats/loopstats.20050403,
perhaps because this feature was added in v1.1.1
Warning: Cannot find SHA1 digest for file
var/log/ntpstats/peerstats.20050403,
perhaps because this feature was added in v1.1.1
Every file verified successfully.

(This was for a repository *created* with 1.2.5, so the "perhaps" bit is
completely bogus.)




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