[Fstransform-devel] preservation of hard links

[Olaf L. <ol...@me...>]

Dear List,

today, I learnt about fstransform and it seems like a wonderful tool!
I'm wondering why I didn't find it earlier. It seems to good, to be
true!

One thing I didn't find in the docs, however, is, if hard links are
preserved during the conversion.

We have a huge block device, about 11 TiB, provided by a 3ware
controller via RAID6. On top of it, there is a XFS file system, which
is used to store incremental backups of user data -- mostly quite small
files. This incremental backup makes heavy use of hard links. If the
linking was broken, the file system would quickly fill up.

Best,

Olaf