Xin Li <delp...@delphij.net> writes: > I think it doesn't make sense to emit size information for non-regular > files like directories, symlinks, etc. although both our and NetBSD's > mtree would emit it.
I agree. The size of a directory will vary from filesystem to filesystem, while the size of a symlink is simply the length of its target. There is no need for it, and in the case of a directory, including it causes spurious diffs between mtree descriptions of identical trees on different systems. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@des.no _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
