Re: missing links error

I may not be understanding the error message correctly.  Is this saying
it cannot find all (admittedly I do have numerous) pathnames associated
with a hard link of a certain file, or something else entirely (if so
please elaborate).  I only really need just the file data from the list
specified, as I have a database that contains the info to rebuild the
hard links if need be.  If this is searching for all the hard links for
the data, is there a way to turn that off?  I cannot find it in the man
documentation.

Thanks for your work on such a great program, and thanks for the
information,

Dan 



On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 17:31 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Daniel Davidson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > I am sure this is probably in a FAQ somewhere, but I cannot find it.
> >
> > I have a list of files I was to put in a star archive, so I do something
> > like:
> >
> > star -c list=backuptest-1.txt file=test1.star
> >
> > which runs to completion, but I get numerous (thousands because I am
> > writing to
> > 500GB tapes) errors saying something like:
> >
> > star: Missing links to '/path/to/whatever/file'.
> >
> > I can go and access the files and they seem proper, so what's with the
> > warning?  I know I can nix this error with the -l flag, but I want to
> > make sure I am not missing data.
> 
> This are your files, so only you may decide whether it may become a problem
> if you did not archive all hard links to a file.
> 
> 
> Jörg
>