Re: [Bug-tar] TAR creates hard links or duplicated files inside archive when using -T option

[Joerg Schilling]

Tim Kientzle <address@hidden> wrote:

> Did you really mean to add the above file twice?
> There are a bunch of other files that also appear twice
> in your file list.
>
> > hrw-rw-r-- dorian/dorian          0 2012-10-23 07:44 
> > shared/0/Android/obb/com.gameloft.android.ANMP.GloftA7HM/imgiab7121.bin 
> > link to 
> > shared/0/Android/obb/com.gameloft.android.ANMP.GloftA7HM/imgiab7121.bin
>
> The duplication above is what's causing this hardlink entry.
> (A hardlink entry is just tar's way of avoiding storing a file
> contents twice.)

But this should not happen when the file has a linkcount == 1

Jörg

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