Re: [Bug-tar] BUG: incorrectly creates hard links in archive

[Toby Peterson]

On 12 Jul 2004, at 01.34, Joerg Schilling wrote:

> > From: address@hidden
>
> > Thanks for responding so quickly! This is a problem that becomes
> > especially apparent on
> > HFS+, which is case-insensitive. Currently, having FOO.txt hardlinked 
> > to
> > foo.txt will hose
> > both.
>
> So it is a problem caused by the fact that your system is not POSIX 
> compliant.
>
> Why don't you just make HFS+ behave like a POSIX filesystem?

I'm not in charge of the filesystem here; there is a case-sensitive 
(and fully POSIX-compliant) variant of HFS+ called HFSX. However, since 
regular HFS+ is the default, I have to deal with problems that arise.

Besides, the problem exists on other filesystems; it just isn't as 
obvious.

Toby Peterson
Core OS
Apple Computer