I was wondering if a hardlink can be made in a user share even if the files are on different physical drives. I assume they can be in this case. However can hardlinks be made across a different user shares? I know that hard links can't be across a filesystem in Linux, but I'm not sure how unRAID handles this.

 

Thanks!

No. unRAID does not support creating hard links on user shares.

 

 

root@tower:~# cd /mnt/user/EBooks/

 

root@tower:/mnt/user/EBooks# ln source.pdf  test.pdf

ln: failed to create hard link ‘test.pdf’ => ‘source.pdf’: Function not implemented

 

I guess I could have tried that myself! Understandable how hard links aren't supported. Some kind of deduplication built into unRAID would be great.

 

Thanks!

Not only that but it's not possible to create hard links across different physical drives. i mean, that's defies the very essence of what a hard link is.