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

[Felix E. Klee]

On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 03:02:14 +0200 Joerg Schilling 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.

OK.  I was asking this because I was wondering what star does with these
numbers upon restore.  Finally I had a look at the star sources: It
seems that the file file star-symtable is used to map old inode numbers
to disk inode numbers. 

Felix