My apologies.  I was just going by what everyone else seemed to be recommending 
at that time; and when browsing the config, I happened upon a variable that I 
wondered would accomplish what they were advocating.  If you'll see the rest of 
the chain, you'll see that I abandoned that idea since ZFS' mechanisms would 
very likely be transparent to BackupPC anyway.

Thanks,

--Mark


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From: backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org [mailto:backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org] 
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 8:21 PM
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Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Pool synchronization?

Mark Campbell wrote at about 10:43:04 -0700 on Wednesday, March 6, 2013:
 > I see.  I just assumed that it was possible based on Lars' comments.  
 > Something I just noticed as I was browsing through the config files, could 
 > it be possible to disable this by changing $Conf{HardLinkMax} = 31999 to 1?

This must be one of the absolute WORST ideas I have heard in a long time...

First, setting it to 1 would be nothing could hard link to the pool not even 
the first backup so BackupPC would probably crash/thrash immediately. You would 
at least want to set it to 2 since the pool file itself is a link.

Furthermore, doing so would really slow things down since now every duplicated 
file would lead to a chain that would need to be walked when adding/comparing a 
new file. Also, BackupPC_nightly would slow down as chains would need to be 
renumbered now most of the time instead of by exception.

Plus, there might be cases where HardLinkMax will fail if set to 1.

Most of all, why even have a pool if only one file ever links to it.

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