Re: [Bug-tar] The --remove-files switch interferes with hardlinking data

[Christopher Neufeld]

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 10:53:31 +0300, Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden> said:

> Christopher Neufeld <address@hidden> wrote:
>> If "--remove-files" is supplied to tar, files which are hardlinked together
>> are not recorded as such in the archive.

> Of course they are not: when --remove-files is specified, the files are
> removed right after being archived. Thus, in your second example, after
> archiving `link1', link count of file `link2' is decremented to 1 and
> it is archived as a regular file.

Naturally, and I believe that this is a bug which should be fixed.

To take a slightly more complicated example, if you start with three
hardlinks to a single file, the tar archive produces two copies of the
file, one singly linked, and one doubly linked.


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