Do Syncthing never modify files in place?

[kazuoteramoto]

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hard links (mac os - android)

hi, really like syncthing, but getting tripped by links. when i try to sync linked files from a mac (10.8.5) to android (4.4.4), one of two things happen. mac aliases and symlinks get ignored, and hard links (generated by $ link [/original] [/lnk]) get corrupted after sync. when corrupted, hard link files become the same size, regardless of size of original. curiously, link files become different sizes depending on type (doc, pdf, …). is this a bug, or am i missing something? thanks.

The following was stated:

@calmh

[…] And we never modify files in place, so there should be no corruption. We will however un-hardlink them (i.e. the end result will be separate files) if there is a change to sync.

Is this by design? It’s OK to assume that Syncthing will never modify files in place or can this change in the future?

[AudriusButkevicius]

No, unless we add a special option for that.