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xattrs and link-dest incompatible

Open paull27 opened this issue 8 months ago • 0 comments

On macOS rsync version 3.4.1 with APFS file system:

using rsync -av --xattrs --link-dest does not create hardlinks, the inode number is different (the file is not transferred again, but copied at the end)

removing the --xattrs option does link the new file to the old one (same inode number)

I believe it has something to do that macos changes the xattrs with every access of the file (including the rsync reading)

paull27 avatar May 14 '25 11:05 paull27