I need a utility to move a file tree from a non-AFS filesystem (AIX jfs) into
an AFS filesystem. It must be able to deal appropriately with hard links.
AIX tar when used in the following way:
tar cf - xxx | (cd /afs/.../yyy; tar xpf -)
generates thousands of error messages for all the hard links.
The documentation for AIX tar sez that you should be able to get around this
by using the '-s' option which is supposed to create a symbolic link if the
creation of a hard link fails.
So I tried:
tar cf - xxx | (cd /afs/.../yyy; tar xpsf -)
and guess what! IT WORKED!!
I just had to share this. I'm so amazed.
-Rick
|Rick Cochran 607-255-7223 [EMAIL PROTECTED]|
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