Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Windows Backing up to Linux storing tiny diffs for every file. Any ideas?

[Dave Kempe]

Andrew Ferguson wrote:
> Josh, does Windows even support hardlinks properly? The problem is 
> that rdiff-backup uses the inode numbers to keep track of hardlinks 
> and since the inode numbers are all zero on Windows, rdiff-backup 
> believes the file has changed. (iirc) The relevant function is 
> Hardlink.rorp_eq(src_rorp, dest_rorp) which is Hardlink.py:86
Windows does have symlink/hardlink like functionality on NTFS 5.0 and 
on. However I have never seen anyone use it, and I don't think its worth 
supporting for the difficulty it might present. I would suggest its safe 
to assume windows does not support hardlinks or softlinks at this stage 
and leave it at that.

Here is a great page discussing the feature (if you could call it that)

http://shell-shocked.org/article.php?id=284

dave