Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:30:53 +0400 From: Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: livefs hard links Message-ID: <86wrt6m4f6.fsf@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1007080700280.43685@wonkity.com> (Warren Block's message of "Thu, 8 Jul 2010 07:19:45 -0600 (MDT)") References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1007072023020.40255@wonkity.com> <86y6dmo4gh.fsf@gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1007080700280.43685@wonkity.com>
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Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> writes: > On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Anonymous wrote: > >> Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> writes: >> >>> The FreeBSD livefs ISO filesystem hides hard links, so they can't be >>> accurately copied. >> >> Use `tar cf - | tar xf -' to copy them. > > That was my first thought, too. Well, second thought, after 'rsync > -aH'. > > But the mounted ISO filesystem doesn't show hard links as hard links: > > # ls -li /mnt/rescue > 416796 -r-xr-xr-x 414 root wheel 4367520 Jun 9 14:49 [ > 399564 -r-xr-xr-x 414 root wheel 4367520 Jun 9 14:49 atacontrol > 399690 -r-xr-xr-x 414 root wheel 4367520 Jun 9 14:49 atmconfig > 399816 -r-xr-xr-x 414 root wheel 4367520 Jun 9 14:49 badsect > ... 414 is the number of hardlinks. You can as well try to use iso9660 reader in libarchive, e.g. $ bsdtar xvf /dev/cd0 --include rescue/\* $ bsdtar xvf /path/to/blah.iso --include rescue/\* > > And rsync or tar never see a hard link to copy.
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