On 05Dec2006 21:54, Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | Cameron Simpson wrote: | >On 05Dec2006 17:59, Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | >| Is there an archive format which does handle links properly? I'm talking | >| about being able to store stuff on CDROM and get it back. | > | >Tar does. | | I was not aware that tar can handle hard and soft links | stored in it. Seems to work just fine. | I thought that the cpio and the tar people | each accused the other group of not handling links properly. Hmm. I actually thought cpio did hardlinks too. The cpio.h header supports a C_ISLNK type for symbolic links, so the format should cope, you'd think. Hard links are easy if the format records the inode number; you just notice the repetition. I know the GNU tar and STAR (posix tar) formats do long file names incompatibly. -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743
