cpio and hard links

[Victor Sudakov]

Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> 
> 
> Given a directory "tmp" which contains two files, "foo" and "bar",
> both of which are merely hard links to one another, the following
> command will, apparently, produce an archive of the directory in
> question which contains only a single instance of the actual file
> contents:
> 
> 	tar cvf tmp.tar tmp
> 
> The resulting tmp.tar file can later be unpacked, using tar, resulting
> in a directory structure which exactly mirrors the original "tmp"
> directory, including preservation of the hard link(s).
> 
> I note however that, given the same original directory structure, the
> following command generates an archive file containing two complete
> instances of the file data:
> 
> 	find tmp -depth -print | cpio -ovm > tmp.cpio
> 
> For the the cpio program that is part of FreeBSD, is there any option
> which would have the effect of causing cpio to only archive a single
> instance of the data associated with each unique inode... as tar apparently
> does, by default?

Try 'cpio -H ustar'.


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