[tahoe-lafs-trac-stream] [tahoe-lafs] #1370: SFTP: consider supporting hard link extension

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#1370: SFTP: consider supporting hard link extension
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     Reporter:  davidsarah     |       Owner:  nobody         
         Type:  defect         |      Status:  new            
     Priority:  major          |   Milestone:  undecided      
    Component:  code-frontend  |     Version:  1.8.2          
   Resolution:                 |    Keywords:  sftp sshfs link
Launchpad Bug:                 |  
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Old description:

> OpenSSH's SFTP server recently (in version 5.7) added a
> [https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1555 hardlink extension],
> and there is a
> [http://www.miek.nl/blog/archives/2011/02/19/hardlink_support_in_sshfs/index.html
> patch to support it in sshfs].
>
> Hardlinks are closer in semantics to the links that Tahoe directories
> have to their children, than are symlinks. So we might want to support
> this even though we do not support symlinks (yet).

New description:

 OpenSSH's SFTP server recently (in version 5.7) added a
 [https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1555 hardlink extension],
 and there is a
 [http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=20110221103749.GA12166%40miek.nl&forum_name
 =fuse-sshfs patch to support it in sshfs].

 Hardlinks are closer in semantics to the links that Tahoe directories have
 to their children, than are symlinks. So we might want to support this
 even though we do not support symlinks (yet).

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Comment (by davidsarah):

 Update patch link to newer version posted on fuse-sshfs.

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