[Bug 336762] Re: ntfs hard links not working

[hopla]

I suspected that '>' might create a new file too. So to be absolutely
sure, I replaced '>' by '>>'. I got the same, wrong, results, file B was
changed, while file A wasn't.

So I still say: hard links do not work on ntfs on my computer. And there
is still no one here who has given me proof that they do work on their
computer! So, please, everyone who wants to contribute to this bug
report: please, if you have an ntfs partition, verify if ntfs hard links
work or not on your computer (replace '>' by '>>' in the examples above
if you want to be 100% certain) before posting any comments.

I need that hard links to work correctly for rsnapshot. Rsnapshot is a
backup solution relying heavily on hard links. Backing up with rsnapshot
to an ntfs partition (I do it on ntfs since it's an external HD that I
also want use on Windows) now takes a really long time, since the first
step in the process is to make a complete hard linked 'copy' of the
previous snapshot. Normally this should be pretty quick, since creating
a hard link is an atomic operation (right?). But I'm getting the
impression that, on ntfs, the cp -al step of rsnapshot silently failes
and creates a full copy instead of creating a proper hard link, which
takes a whole lot longer than creating a simple link... Not to mention
the waste of storage...

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ntfs hard links not working
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