Environment
LDMS9.0 SP2 or later
Description:
When we using preferred server with LANDesk, you may wants to know if the hard links are working or not.
Please refer to Using LANDesk Content Replication
You will see the following tips:
Tip: If the SDMCache is on the same drive as the share (C:\Program Files\LANDesk\LDClient\SDMCache and C:\Share, or D:\SDMCache and D:\Share) LANDesk will try to create a hard link so that there is only one physical copy of the data on the disk, even though it can be found in two logical locations.
After we configured everything in preferred server, we still can see the same file are saving in the 2 different location.
How do I know if the hard link is working or not?
Resolution:
Please reference below link for more information.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/query/hh290814
Here are the information copied from above link.
FindLinks reports the file index and any hard links (alternate file paths on the same volume) that exist for the specified file. A file's data remains allocated so long as at it has at least one file name referencing it.
Using FindLinks
Usage: findlinks <filename>
Example
The following command reports the file paths that reference the same file data as C:\Windows\Notepad.exe:
C:\>findlinks c:\windows\notepad.exe
FindLinks - Locate file hard links
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c:\windows\notepad.exe
Index: 0x000057D9
Links: 3
Linking files:
C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-notepadwin_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_9ebebe8614be1470\notepad.exe
C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-notepad_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_cb0f7f2289b0c21a\notepad.exe
C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe