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From: Alfred von Campe <alfred AT von-campe DOT com>
Subject: Re: Strange symlink behaviour
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:59:55 -0500
To: Thomas Wolff <towo AT towo DOT net>
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On Mar 10, 2010, at 4:37, Thomas Wolff wrote:

> 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.

That's good to know.  In my limited experiments on the NAS box we use  
(which speaks both CIFS and NFS), extracting a tar file containing  
hard links from Windows via the Cygwin tar, appears to "do the right  
thing".  It even appears that it's an actual hard link when viewed  
from NFS (both files have the same inode).

Alfred


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