hi ya dan no problem with tar no problem with hard links...
i just dont use um...if it dont work for me...i remove um and use relative symlinks c ya alvin On 15 May 2001, Dan Christensen wrote: > Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > - yes the hardlinks for gunzip and gzip is not a issue in that > > case since its in the same directory/partitions > > - hardlinks is a problem when it crosses directories > > and partitions since it keeps the leading / > > Hardlinks can't cross partitions. Try it. > > The gunzip and gzip hardlinks *do* pose a problem if you use tar > to unpack an archive and /usr is mounted in a non-standard place. > Try it. I think this is a bug in tar. > > Dan >
