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

Yuya Nishihara yuya at tcha.org
Fri Feb 17 07:57:30 EST 2017


On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 20:34:32 +0000, Jeroen Vaelen wrote:
> Confidence in stable posix implementations could come from:
> 
> - hardlink backups being the default for nearly 10 years before the previously
>   mentioned patch disabled them after a series of bug reports coming
>   exclusively from Windows users.

No. This particular code path was introduced in 3.3-rc, and we got the bug
report soon after the release.


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