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Re: [Bug-tar] unmodified files included in incremental tar if link count
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Joerg Schilling |
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Re: [Bug-tar] unmodified files included in incremental tar if link count was changed |
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Mon, 16 Jul 2018 11:33:15 +0200 |
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Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Peter,
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> > What if I change the kernel and prevent ctime-changes if only st_nlink
> > was changed?
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> Wouldn't it be easier, and have less unknown impact, to change the
> program making the hard links to read-link-write ctime, preserving it?
If you did change the kernel to not change ctime in case that a new link
is established to a file, the ctime for the new name would be old as well since
there is only one inode for the file names.
As a result, your incremental backup did not include the new name.
Jörg
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