Symlinks status?

[kahun]

Hi

Is following symlinks (on Linux) supported at the moment?

thanks

[zukoo]

Hi,

Yes, between two linux host at least it will sync the symlink as symlinks. I think it can be disabled using symlinksEnabled in the config. (see doc)

[calmh (Jakob Borg)]

Following the symlinks is not supported. There’s a hefty bounty on it though, somewhere around here.

[bigbear2nd (Bob Hope)]

I think you mean this one:

$600 bounty for symlink handling

I'm offering a bounty of 600 US dollars for a per-folder setting for how to handle symlinks in the Linux client. A select box with the following choices, per folder, would be sufficient to fulfil my needs, though I'm open to discussion of other ideas: A. Ignore symlinks found on the source filesystem, which is how Syncthing currently behaves. B. Follow symlinks found on the source filesystem. Loop detection is done to prevent infinite recursion, and links that would cause loops are not follo…