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Date:      Sat, 24 Mar 2007 21:24:37 +0000
From:      Vince <jhary@unsane.co.uk>
To:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.gdynia.pl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mkisofs,cd9660 and hard links
Message-ID:  <46059715.8060306@unsane.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20070324201201.D6725@chylonia.3miasto.net>
References:  <20070324201201.D6725@chylonia.3miasto.net>

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Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> i did copy of small server (taking about 3GB space) to DVD with 
> growisofs -R and using --exclude to not copy /dev etc..
>
> worked fine.
>
> and recovered fine, but taking much more space, because all hardlinks 
> are now separate files.
>
> it looks like cd9660 filesystem doesn't "see" hardlinked files as 
> hardlinked, but as separate ones.
>
> is there any program to fix it like comparing all very similar files 
> on disk and hardlinking them?
Not that i'm aware of but someone else may. Maybe next time you could 
store the files on the DVD in a tar file which keeps hardlink information.

Vince


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