lxc-clone makes new copies of each hardlinked file

[Jason Hobbs]

I'm using lxc 1.0.7 from the stable PPA on precise.

When I use lxc-clone to copy a container running MAAS, which uses hardlinks to manage images, each hardlinked file is created as a new file in the cloned rootfs, increasing my file system size by hundreds of GB's.

rsync is not using -H - just rsync -a.

[Erik B. Andersen (azendale)]

I've attempted to fix this, see my branch on github:

https://github.com/Azendale/lxc/tree/fix-rsync-hardlinks

I'm not quite sure how I go about building a package from a github branch that I could test. If Jason Hobbs knows how to do that and could test if it fixes the issue, that would be great!

[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

Looking at the current LXC code, "-H" is part of our rsync flags now.