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xz-utils package

  1. Bug #722910
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 722910

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xhienne (xhienne) wrote :

Thanks. IMHO, the title should no longer mention NTFS. The behavior can be observed on any filesystem.

Try this, for example, on an ext* FS:
# touch foo
# ln foo bar
# gzip bar
gzip: bar has 1 other link -- unchanged
# bzip2 bar
bzip2: Input file bar has 1 other link.
# xz bar
xz: bar: Input file has more than one hard link, skipping
# lzma bar
lzma: bar: Input file has more than one hard link, skipping

Note: I have also affected this bug to the gzip project