X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4B97684F.7000703@towo.net> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:37:19 +0100 From: Thomas Wolff User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Strange symlink behaviour References: <20100304094847.GZ17293@calimero.vinschen.de> <20100304114902.GC7980@calimero.vinschen.de> <4B9696F3.70004@cygwin.com> <4A05CDB7-413E-4920-989F-E9470BCBE658@von-campe.com> In-Reply-To: <4A05CDB7-413E-4920-989F-E9470BCBE658@von-campe.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 10.03.2010 01:36, Alfred von Campe wrote: > On Mar 9, 2010, at 13:44, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > >> On 3/9/2010 10:11 AM, Alfred von Campe wrote: >>> The solution was to use hard links in the tar file (which doesn't >>> use up >>> any more space), and when it was untar'ed on Windows, everything worked >> ^ >> On NTFS partitions. It will on any kind of FAT partition though. > > I meant that it didn't take more space inside the tar file. I don't > mind if it takes twice the disk space once extracted. Actually, if the file system does not support hard links, a tar file that contains them doesn't properly extract at all, it will rather report errors for those files. (At least that's what it does on a network filesystem whose mount doesn't support hard links either.) So it's a problem to use hard links in tar for general use. ------ Thomas -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple