Bug?

[Anthony Tuininga]

I am not sure if this is actually a bug or not, but it is rather strange
behaviour so if you can explain it to me, that would be wonderful! :-)

We have a gzipped tar image created from two different filesystems with
the tar file going on to a third filesystem. When we do this, all
symbolic links within the gzipped tar file become zero length files
without any permissions. If we instead split the gzipped tar file into
two pieces, one for each filesystem, then the symbolic links are stored
correctly. For example,

This will store symbolic links incorrectly
cd /
tar zcvf /u02/all-backup.tgz etc u01

where etc is on the root filesystem
and u01 is a separate filesystem

This will store symbolic links correctly
cd /
tar zcvf /u01/etc-backp.tgz etc
tar zxvf /u01/u01-backup.tgz u01

This is for tar 1.13.25 which comes with Red Hat 8.0. If you need any
additional information, feel free to contact me. Thanks.

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