Re: [Bug-tar] tar doc question: what is "hard-dereference"; how is it done?

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Linda A. Walsh <address@hidden> ha escrit:

> Instead of going this route with hard-links, maybe tar
> might pre-process the directory tree into its own memory,
> or as a .dir-<some-dt-stamp> at the root of the tree just
> for things like hardlinks; 

Perhaps it might, but this would mean inventing a new archive format
or extending one of the supported ones. Both ways would produce
compatibility problems with prior releases of the GNU tar as well
as with other tar implementations. I can't see any gain which
would justify our going into such troubles.

Regards,
Sergey