Re: [rdiff-backup-users] file error

[Farkas Levente]

Ben Escoto wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 10:52:24 +0200 Farkas Levente <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> > I've got this error since a few weeeks with v0.12.3:
> > Warning: Attempt to rename over same inode: 
>
>
> Hi, maybe I'll look into it if those warnings get really annoying, or
> if you think something is wrong, but those warnings are harmless I
> think.  The basic problem is that when you move one hard linked file
> over another, there is no error message but the original file remains.
> See for yourself:
>
> ~ $ cat /dev/null > foo1
> ~ $ ln foo1 foo2
> ~ $ mv foo1 foo2
> ~ $ ls -l foo*
> -rw-r--r--    2 ben      ben             0 Sep  1 11:00 foo1
> -rw-r--r--    2 ben      ben             0 Sep  1 11:00 foo2
> ~ $ 
>
> So rdiff-backup then manually deletes the first file.  If you are
> getting these warnings and aren't dealing with hard linked files, then
> something is wrong.

that's the problem! I list all file's inode number which are among the 
warning and thay all different! may be some file in the increment files 
...and that's why this annoy me!

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