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Re: : Re: [Bug-tar] Incremental restore seems to first create then rena

From: Joerg Schilling
Subject: Re: : Re: [Bug-tar] Incremental restore seems to first create then rename
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 00:35:22 +0200
User-agent: nail 11.2 8/15/04 
Martin Simmons <address@hidden> wrote:

>   >> I don't think that will work because inode numbers are not unique over 
> time.
>   >> E.g. dirs foo and bar below are not related.
>
>   Jörg> It definitely does work. It is the way ufsdump/ufsrestore work since 
> 1981.
>
> You are right, it will restore things correctly when used with the other
> incremental-saving code for files.  It is just not quite right to say that it
> accurately detects renamed directories.

Believe me, star _does_ detect renamed directories and does a rename(2) when 
extracting incrementals.

... and if you don't believe me, you could just RTSL.

Jörg

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