Re: [rdiff-backup-users] inodes and Windows

[Josh Nisly]

Charles Marcus wrote:
> On 4/15/2008 8:14 AM, Josh Nisly wrote:
> > > > I've never seen a Windows program that even attempts to handle 
> > > > hardlinks, so I'm not sure it's worth trying to handle them in 
> > > > rdiff-backup.
>
> > > Maybe you could check out DataSafe Backup?
> > >
> > > http://sofgem.selfip.com/
>
> > This program is actually doing something different. It claims to use 
> > hardlinks to save storage space with files that are identical.
>
> ??? I was responding to the comment that 'I've never seen a Windows 
> program that attempts to handle hardlinks...'
>
> If thats not what was meant, then maybe the OP should choose their 
> words more carefully?
Ah, ok. My mistake. What I was meaning originally was that I've never 
seen a Windows program that tries to detect files that are already 
hardlinked, and tries to behave differently based on that fact.

JoshN