File copying problem

[Stefan Vorkoetter]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar 30 10:20, Stefan Vorkoetter wrote:
>> I'll talk to our IT folks. Any idea why this problem doesn't happen with a 
>> 1.5.18 based cygwin?
> 
> Faked inode number vs. real inode number on remote drives.
> 
> 
> Corinna

Another question then: Why can I successfully use tar to read files from the samba file system, and record them into a tar archive on the local file system? Is it simply that tar doesn't bother checking whether the inode changed?

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Stefan Vorkoetter
Maplesoft

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