[Bug-tar] unmodified files included in incremental tar if link count was changed

2018-07-14 Thread Peter Koch
ike changing the ownership or permissions or acls or whatever) or wether just the st_nlink-value was changed. What if I change the kernel and prevent ctime-changes if only st_nlink was changed? Would that have any unexpected side-effects? Kind regards Peter Koch

[Bug-tar] unmodified files included in incremental tar if link count was changed

2018-07-16 Thread Peter Koch
Dear tar-experts: I have learned that changing the kernel to not modify ctime when just the nlink-value has changed in an inode was a nice idea but has some unwanted side-effects. Also it's too hard for me to implement. Whenever a changed inode is written to disk, its ctime value will be set to c