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

Yuya Nishihara yuya at tcha.org
Thu Mar 2 10:46:55 EST 2017


On Wed, 1 Mar 2017 17:55:25 -0800, Jun Wu wrote:
> According to https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4546:
> 
>   Testing with mercurial 3.2 and 3.3 to a Linux samba server worked without
>   issue in the few tests I've done.  This suggests the most likely cause is
>   an NTFS/Windows based file server?
> 
> So I think at least we can have a whitelist (instead of a blacklist) that
> allows Linux to use real hardlinks. Just ignore OS X or Windows for now.

She said a Linux samba server had no problem, not a Linux client with Windows
server.


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