[ITP] rsnapshot 1.3.0 -- A local and remote filesystem snapshot utility
Igor Peshansky
pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Tue Mar 4 00:08:00 GMT 2008
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Jari Aalto wrote:
> ... rsnapshot makes extensive use of hard links, so disk space is only
> used when absolutely necessary...
This will not be true on some non-NTFS filesystems (e.g., FAT). Perhaps a
note in the Cygwin-specific README to that regard is in order? FWIW, I
would also change the ldesc to indicate that hard links will only be used
on NTFS and whatever other systems support them (Corinna?).
Igor
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