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I have webdav with nginx that I use to transfer files to a remote server. I mount it using davfs2 on a Debian box. The problem is that when I try to create a hardlink, I get the following error message:

ln: failed to create hard link 'cpool/test' => 'pc/test': Function not implemented

Is there a workaround?

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Without special extensions, WebDAV does not support creation of hard links. The closest standard thing in WebDAV is a 'redirect reference resource' (RFC 4437), which results in returning a 3xx status code, and therefore behaves like a symbolic link, not a hard link. The upstream http_dav module in nginx does not support this extension (and in fact, doesn't support some of the standard commands (LOCK, UNLOCK, PROPFIND, and PROPPATCH aren't supported by it). I'm not sure if the third-party module does, but it wouldn't surprise me if it didn't seeing as outside of power users and sysadmins, most people don't user symlinks much either.

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