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Re: [Bug-tar] unmodified files included in incremental tar if link count
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: [Bug-tar] unmodified files included in incremental tar if link count was changed |
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Sat, 14 Jul 2018 16:39:00 -0500 |
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On 07/14/2018 01:00 PM, Peter Koch wrote:
> What if I change the kernel and prevent ctime-changes if only
> st_nlink was changed?
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> Would that have any unexpected side-effects?
Well, you'd violate POSIX, and there are (admittedly unusual) cases
where incremental dumps would silently lose data. But other than that,
you'd be OK.