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docs: document behavior for filesystems with inconsistent inodes, fixes borgbackup#5770 (#5965)

Jubjub 4 年之前
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@@ -987,6 +987,12 @@ stable. If the directory where you mount a filesystem is different every time,
 Borg assumes they are different files. This is true even if you backup these
 Borg assumes they are different files. This is true even if you backup these
 files with relative pathnames - borg uses full pathnames in files cache regardless.
 files with relative pathnames - borg uses full pathnames in files cache regardless.
 
 
+It is possible for some filesystems, such as ``mergerfs`` or network filesystems,
+to return inconsistent inode numbers across runs, causing borg to consider them changed.
+A workaround is to set the option ``--files-cache=ctime,size`` to exclude the inode
+number comparison from the files cache check so that files with different inode
+numbers won't be treated as modified.
+
 
 
 Is there a way to limit bandwidth with Borg?
 Is there a way to limit bandwidth with Borg?
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