Re: [Bug-tar] unmodified files included in incremental tar if link count was changed

[Joerg Schilling]

"address@hidden" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Dear tar-experts
>
> I observed lots of files that where included in incremental
> tar files without beeing modified. And it seems that the
> reason is a modfied hardlink count of these files.

Not only gtar, but also star adds files in case that the "ctime" of those
files changed.

I am not sure about whether gtar would be able to do so, but at least star is 
theoretically able to archive only the meta data of the file in such a case.

It just has not been enabled because this would require intensive testing.


Jörg

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