Re: [Bug-tar] Incremental restore seems to first create then rename

[Joerg Schilling]

"Felix E. Klee" <address@hidden> wrote:

> > Star does have a directory preparation phase where it scans file names
> > and inode numbers. if it detects disappeared files, it moves them to
> > /star-tmpdir.  This is done as star cannot knw at this point whether
> > the files has been removed or rename to a different dir.
>
> I have one question here: Does star store the inode numbers in the tar
> file (I guess not)?

Of course, star does store the inode numbers in the tar archive.
It uses extensions to the POSIX 2001 tar extensions to do it.

Jörg

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