Re: Hamm frozen, Slink created
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Raul Miller wrote:
> Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> wrote:
> > What keeps mirror from recognizing the hardness of the link and
> > reproducing the hard link in the local directory? I'm not suggesting
> > that mirror is currently capable of this, just trying to figure out
> > why it couldn't be.
>
> There's no way to distinguish between a copied file and a hardlinked
> file, without enhancing ftp. Thus, all files must be downloaded
> (and md5sums compared -- presumably you maintain a sorted list
> of md5s during download) to implement this. With symlinks, you
> can avoid the redundant downloads.
>
I take this to mean that currently ftp has no way to determine the inode
of a file on the remote machine? That would certainly make it hard to
impliment anything on the other end ;-)
Still, if the directories containing hard links could be identified for
mirror, then it could simply read the directory and create the hard links
in the target directory. (just dreaming)
Luck,
Dwarf
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