It would be nice if there were an option to skip files which have different attributes, e.g. permissions, owner/group, date/time. Potentially even with separate command-line arguments for each of these.
The reason would be: when rdfind is used with -makehardlinks, such information is lost, because the information is contained in the inode, and only a single inode remains after pointing the various files to a single inode. This may not always be what you want.
Personally, I'm using rdfind together with rsync in a backup-with-snapshots setup; in that scenario it is a problem that rsync detects changes when files that have been marked by rdfind as duplicates (and folded into a single inode) have different modification dates than the files on the source system.
It would be nice if there were an option to skip files which have different attributes, e.g. permissions, owner/group, date/time. Potentially even with separate command-line arguments for each of these.
The reason would be: when
rdfindis used with-makehardlinks, such information is lost, because the information is contained in the inode, and only a single inode remains after pointing the various files to a single inode. This may not always be what you want.Personally, I'm using
rdfindtogether withrsyncin a backup-with-snapshots setup; in that scenario it is a problem thatrsyncdetects changes when files that have been marked byrdfindas duplicates (and folded into a single inode) have different modification dates than the files on the source system.