On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Roman Hodek wrote: > > > I just tried to use tar to copy one of my CDs with hard links back onto > > the hard disk. I did a cd to that archive, and ran: > > > > tar -c /cdrom | tar -xv > > > > Which created seperate inodes for the file and its hard link, blowing the > > 600 meg up to about 900 meg. This is the same result as with cp -a. Have I > > left something out? > > Does the iso9660 fs actually support hard links?? Ok, it supports > sharing data between files simply by mapping the same blocks, but it > doesn't tell the user about this fact. I guess tar simply can't see > that there are hard links... > I just checked with ls -i, and the inodes are not the same for the file in binary-i386 and its msdos file. This probably explains why none of the utilities recognize them as hard links. (they were definitly hard links on the archive that I built the CD from) It seems that ISO9660 deals with this differntly, unless it is a bug in mkisofs?
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