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