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docs: add another case of attempted hardlink usage

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Thomas Waldmann 2020-12-24 02:41:26 +01:00
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@ -23,4 +23,6 @@ and readable after one of the failures mentioned above occurred, run
Large repositories may require large files (>2 GB).
- Up to 1000 files per directory (10000 for repositories initialized with Borg 1.0)
- mkdir(2) should be atomic, since it is used for locking
- Hardlinks are needed for :ref:`borg_upgrade` (if ``--inplace`` option is not used)
- Hardlinks are needed for :ref:`borg_upgrade` (if ``--inplace`` option is not used).
Also hardlinks are used for more safe and secure file updating (e.g. of the repo
config file), but the code tries to work also if hardlinks are not supported.