On 3/19/2014 6:36 AM, Radu Radutiu wrote: > I'll modify my rsync command to preserve hard links. note that on a large file system with a large number of files, thats VERY expensive, as rsync has to keep a list of every inode number on the whole file system and verify each directory entry isn't pointing to an inode its already linked. if there's a few million files, this data structure gets HUGE in memory. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast