Note that a key with no size field that is hard linked will
result in listImportableContents reporting a file size of 0,
rather than the actual size of the file. One result is that
the progress meter when getting the file will seem to get stuck
at 100%. Another is that the remote's preferred content expression,
if it tries to match against file size, will treat it as an empty file.
I don't see a way to improve the latter behavior, and the former behavior
is a minor enough problem.
This commit was sponsored by Jake Vosloo on Patreon.
Keys stored on the filesystem are mangled by keyFile to avoid problem
chars. So, that mangling has to be reversed when parsing files from a
borg backup back to a key.
The directory special remote also so mangles them. Some other special
remotes do not; eg S3 just serializes the key -- but S3 object names are
not limited to filesystem valid filenames anyway, so a S3 server must
not map them directly to files in any case. It seems unlikely that a
borg backup of some such special remote will get broken by this change.
This commit was sponsored by Graham Spencer on Patreon.
