On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Tyson Tucker <[email protected]>wrote:
> I haven't figured out what makes the duplicate files/directories special, > but some are duplicated up to three times in the tar file. I've tested it > on versions 1.17 and 1.22 on Solaris and 1.22 on Linux. > I should add that it seems to be deterministic, ie if a gets added 3 times on one run, it will be added times every run. Also, the limit isn't 3 duplicates, I've now seen up to 5. Thanks, Tyson > > To reproduce: > > find /usr/local/lib /usr/local/share > test_file > tar -c --files-from=test_file -f /tmp/test.tar > tar -tf /tmp/test.tar | sort | uniq -d > > Let me know if you need any more details. > > Thank you, > Tyson >
