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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: Release ISO images have broken RockRidge data
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On Wed, 10 Apr 2013, Thomas Schmitt wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Warren Block wrote:
>> sync will support hard links with -H
>
> But how shall rsync know that the files in the ISO image stem from
> hardlink siblings on the hard disk where the image was produced ?

Well, no it won't recreate them by inferral.  Although that would be 
kind of a neat option for rsync, which can already deal with checksums. 
But when copying files, it does support hard links.