Commit 74318420 authored by bescoto's avatar bescoto

Removed --windows-mode discussion


git-svn-id: http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/svn/rdiff-backup@565 2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109
parent c49b0601
...@@ -121,13 +121,11 @@ some header files in the Makefile: ...@@ -121,13 +121,11 @@ some header files in the Makefile:
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Then, whenever you use rdiff-backup to back up or restore from a unix XXX The above information is old, point to newer porting efforts?
system to Windows, use the <strong>--windows-mode</strong> switch.
This compensates for some windows file systems' inability to store Although some windows filesystems lack features like fifos, case
hard links, symlinks, device files, sockets, fifos, case sensitive sensitive filenames, or files with colons (":") in them, this should
filenames, and filenames with colons (":") in them. No information be autodetected and compensated for by rdiff-backup.
will be lost however, because rdiff-backup stores metadata in a
separate file.
<P> <P>
<a name="OSX"> <a name="OSX">
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