On 23 Feb 2008, at 14:34, Brian Whitman wrote:

Will the hardlink snapshot scheme work across physical disk partitions? Can I snapshoot to a different partition than the one holding the live solr index?


On 24/02/2008, at 15:32, James Brady wrote:

Unfortunately, you cannot hard link across mount points.

Snapshooter uses "cp -lr", which, on my Linux machine at least, fails with: cp: cannot create link `/mnt2/myuser/linktest': Invalid cross-device link

James


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_link

:)

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Leonardo Santagada



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