[PATCH] transaction: enable hardlink backups for non-windows systems

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Augie Fackler wrote:
> I'm hesitant to take this because as of 10.12 macOS is pushing people
> towards CIFS instead of AFP,

Interesting

> so this issue feels more likely to come up there.

> Also, isn't it possible to mount CIFS volumes in the filesystem space on Linux?

I was going to mention CIFS for Linux.

> Do we have any reason for confidence this is only a problem in the Windows CIFS client,
> and not a problem in the server?

I can't imagine this being the case. It's incredibly rare for the
linux CIFS clients to be significantly better than the Windows
implementations.

Out of curiosity, does sshfs handle this stuff correctly? :)