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

[Felix E. Klee]

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 19:47:33 +0200 Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > [Selectively excluding files]
> 
> As long as you do not rename files from the hidden part of the tree into
> the non hiden part, it should be possible although I did not yet
> test this. Note that the incremental restore is quite new and I did like to 
> be ready before I travel to the US.

Let's continue this discussion in the thread "[1.5a47] list= diables
incremental dumps" on address@hidden

> > [Sometimes removed files are not stored in star-tmpdir (probably if
> > they are replaced by a file with the same inode number).]
> 
> Star does have a directory preparation phase where it scans file names
> and inode numbers. if it detects disappeared files, it moves them to
> /star-tmpdir.  This is done as star cannot knw at this point whether
> the files has been removed or rename to a different dir.

I have one question here: Does star store the inode numbers in the tar
file (I guess not)?

> [More explanation of the restore process]

Thanks for that.

Felix