Hello, I tried this with tar 1.13.25 and 1.14 I am tarring a directory tree and in some of the directories, there are pairs of files that: - have the same size, time and date - may have the same checksum but I did not check that - have different names - are different (I checked by looking at them with a hex editor)
They are different files but tar only saves one of them and the second one is saved a some kind of a link/directory with the correct name of the second file. Is it possible that tar gets confused and believes that the files are the same and tries to create a link for one of the files? Is there an option to turn off such behavior? I could not fix this by using any of the tar formats, preserve options, etc. Any ideas of what it is caused by? Seems that this is very serious misbehavior and I did not find anything about it anywhere (hard to search for). Martin _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
