diff -urN ../busybox-1.24.2.orig/archival/libarchive/data_extract_all.c ./archival/libarchive/data_extract_all.c
--- ../busybox-1.24.2.orig/archival/libarchive/data_extract_all.c	2016-03-17 23:35:49.000000000 +0300
+++ ./archival/libarchive/data_extract_all.c	2016-08-08 15:13:37.205642240 +0300
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@
 	if (S_ISREG(file_header->mode)
 	 && file_header->link_target
 	 && file_header->size == 0
+	 && !(archive_handle->ah_flags & ARCHIVE_HARD_DEREFERENCE)
 	) {
 		/* hard link */
 		res = link(file_header->link_target, file_header->name);
@@ -120,7 +121,16 @@
 			flags,
 			file_header->mode
 			);
-		bb_copyfd_exact_size(archive_handle->src_fd, dst_fd, file_header->size);
+		/* Copy file if hardlink */
+		if (file_header->link_target && file_header->size == 0) {
+			int src_fd = xopen3(file_header->link_target,
+				O_RDONLY,
+				file_header->mode
+				);
+			bb_copyfd_eof(src_fd, dst_fd);
+			close(src_fd);
+		} else
+			bb_copyfd_exact_size(archive_handle->src_fd, dst_fd, file_header->size);
 		close(dst_fd);
 #ifdef ARCHIVE_REPLACE_VIA_RENAME
 		if (archive_handle->ah_flags & ARCHIVE_REPLACE_VIA_RENAME) {
diff -urN ../busybox-1.24.2.orig/archival/tar.c ./archival/tar.c
--- ../busybox-1.24.2.orig/archival/tar.c	2016-03-17 23:35:49.000000000 +0300
+++ ./archival/tar.c	2016-08-08 14:23:11.321679306 +0300
@@ -834,6 +834,7 @@
 //	o	no-same-owner
 //	p	same-permissions
 //	k	keep-old
+//  hard-dereference
 //	no-recursion
 //	numeric-owner
 //	no-same-permissions
@@ -855,6 +856,7 @@
 	IF_FEATURE_SEAMLESS_Z(   OPTBIT_COMPRESS    ,)
 	IF_FEATURE_TAR_NOPRESERVE_TIME(OPTBIT_NOPRESERVE_TIME,)
 #if ENABLE_FEATURE_TAR_LONG_OPTIONS
+	OPTBIT_HARD_DEREFERENCE,
 	OPTBIT_NORECURSION,
 	IF_FEATURE_TAR_TO_COMMAND(OPTBIT_2COMMAND   ,)
 	OPTBIT_NUMERIC_OWNER,
@@ -880,6 +882,7 @@
 	OPT_XZ           = IF_FEATURE_SEAMLESS_XZ(  (1 << OPTBIT_XZ          )) + 0, // J
 	OPT_COMPRESS     = IF_FEATURE_SEAMLESS_Z(   (1 << OPTBIT_COMPRESS    )) + 0, // Z
 	OPT_NOPRESERVE_TIME = IF_FEATURE_TAR_NOPRESERVE_TIME((1 << OPTBIT_NOPRESERVE_TIME)) + 0, // m
+	OPT_HARD_DEREFERENCE = IF_FEATURE_TAR_LONG_OPTIONS((1 << OPTBIT_HARD_DEREFERENCE)) + 0, // hard-dereference
 	OPT_NORECURSION     = IF_FEATURE_TAR_LONG_OPTIONS((1 << OPTBIT_NORECURSION    )) + 0, // no-recursion
 	OPT_2COMMAND        = IF_FEATURE_TAR_TO_COMMAND(  (1 << OPTBIT_2COMMAND       )) + 0, // to-command
 	OPT_NUMERIC_OWNER   = IF_FEATURE_TAR_LONG_OPTIONS((1 << OPTBIT_NUMERIC_OWNER  )) + 0, // numeric-owner
@@ -928,6 +931,7 @@
 # if ENABLE_FEATURE_TAR_NOPRESERVE_TIME
 	"touch\0"               No_argument       "m"
 # endif
+	"hard-dereference\0"    No_argument   "\xf0"
 	"no-recursion\0"	No_argument       "\xfa"
 # if ENABLE_FEATURE_TAR_TO_COMMAND
 	"to-command\0"		Required_argument "\xfb"
@@ -1067,6 +1071,9 @@
 
 	if (opt & OPT_NOPRESERVE_TIME)
 		tar_handle->ah_flags &= ~ARCHIVE_RESTORE_DATE;
+		
+	if (opt & OPT_HARD_DEREFERENCE)
+		tar_handle->ah_flags |= ARCHIVE_HARD_DEREFERENCE;
 
 #if ENABLE_FEATURE_TAR_FROM
 	tar_handle->reject = append_file_list_to_list(tar_handle->reject);
diff -urN ../busybox-1.24.2.orig/include/bb_archive.h ./include/bb_archive.h
--- ../busybox-1.24.2.orig/include/bb_archive.h	2016-08-08 15:34:25.557626948 +0300
+++ ./include/bb_archive.h	2016-08-08 14:02:09.909694758 +0300
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@
 #if ENABLE_RPM
 #define ARCHIVE_REPLACE_VIA_RENAME  (1 << 10)
 #endif
-
+#define ARCHIVE_HARD_DEREFERENCE    (1 << 11)
 
 /* POSIX tar Header Block, from POSIX 1003.1-1990  */
 #define TAR_BLOCK_SIZE 512