SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption.
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Martin Dalecki :
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tar/cpio and friends don't deal properly with
a. holes inside of files.
b. hardlinks between files.
??? GNU tar does both. The only thing it currently cannot handle is Not Changing Anything: either atime or ctime _will_ be updated.