tarcas: remove size from hardlinks #63
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Utilities like "docker save" (and with extension "dive") and anything that uses vbatts/tar-split depends on tar files that have hardlink entries with a zero size. While most other utilities don't care about the size header in a hardlink, we should strive for maximum compatibility.
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Utilities like "docker save" (and with extension "dive") and anything that uses vbatts/tar-split depends on tar files that have hardlink entries with a zero size. While most other utilities don't care about the size header in a hardlink, we should strive for maximum compatibility.