Limits of Mercurial Share Extension on Filesystems Without Hard-Link Support
Share Extension Behavior on Unsupported Filesystems The Mercurial share extension creates a clone that hard‑links the source repository’s store directory, reducing disk usage for low‑traffic workloads. On filesystems that do not support hard links (e.g., FAT or certain network shares), the extension silently falls back to a full copy, producing a share that