mkfs.jffs2 and hard links

Jörn Engel joern at wohnheim.fh-wedel.de
Mon Apr 14 15:14:54 EDT 2003


On Mon, 14 April 2003 19:50:02 +0200, Steven Scholz wrote:
> 
> are you guys working on full hard link support for mkfs.jffs2?

Not that I had heard about it.

> The man page states
> 
> "mkfs.jffs2 does not properly  handle  hard  links  in  the input 
> directory  structure.  Currently, hard linked files will be expanded 
> to multiple identical files in the output image."
> 
> Is that going to change?

I hope so. Do you volunteer? :)

Jörn

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