Bug#452365: tar -cO . | tar -xC ../newplace - results in a killed symlinks

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:20:21 +0300 Dmitry I. Kulagin d...@ufp.appl.sci-nnov.ru wrote: Yesterday trying to move my root fs to a new location, while doing these steps: mount -o bind,ro / /mnt/mnt cd /mnt/mnt tar -cO . | tar -xC ../newplace Hi Dmitry, Can you still reproduce this bug, and

Bug#452365: tar -cO . | tar -xC ../newplace - results in a killed symlinks

Package: tar Version: 1.19-1 Severity: important Yesterday trying to move my root fs to a new location, while doing these steps: mount -o bind,ro / /mnt/mnt cd /mnt/mnt tar -cO . | tar -xC ../newplace The result was about fifty or more persent of symlinks were damaged at a new location. In a