Re: [Bug-tar] The --remove-files switch interferes with hardlinking data

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Christopher Neufeld <address@hidden> wrote:

> If "--remove-files" is supplied to tar, files which are hardlinked together
> are not recorded as such in the archive.

Of course they are not: when --remove-files is specified, the files are
removed right after being archived. Thus, in your second example, after
archiving `link1', link count of file `link2' is decremented to 1 and
it is archived as a regular file.

Regards,
Sergey