Strange symlink behaviour

Wed Mar 10 09:55:00 GMT 2010

On 10.03.2010 01:36, Alfred von Campe wrote:
> On Mar 9, 2010, at 13:44, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>>> On 3/9/2010 10:11 AM, Alfred von Campe wrote:
>>> The solution was to use hard links in the tar file (which doesn't 
>>> use up
>>> any more space), and when it was untar'ed on Windows, everything worked
>> ^
>> On NTFS partitions. It will on any kind of FAT partition though.
>> I meant that it didn't take more space inside the tar file. I don't 
> mind if it takes twice the disk space once extracted.
Actually, if the file system does not support hard links, a tar file 
that contains them doesn't properly extract at all, it will rather 
report errors for those files.
(At least that's what it does on a network filesystem whose mount 
doesn't support hard links either.)
So it's a problem to use hard links in tar for general use.
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Thomas
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