Linda A. Walsh <g...@tlinx.org> 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