Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 21:44:06 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> Cc: Martin Blapp <blapp@attic.ch>, "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@hwcn.org> Subject: Re: GNU-Tar should be updated Message-ID: <8861.898663446@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 23 Jun 1998 17:26:01 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980623172220.6388C-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
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> tar is an add-on, and is not the standard backup tool, dump/restore is. > dump/restore have their own problems, but backing up /dev is not one of > them. > > Besides, some think that all GNU tars should be replaced with star which > is much faster. Plus star generates real posix archives. What people probably aren't realizing (and this is actually a good argument for honestly *looking* at code which you propose to replace first :-) is that FreeBSD's current tar isn't a stock GNU tar, it's GNU tar with features like --fast-read added (just to name one extention off the top of my head). If you were to just replace our tar with a stock one, tools like pkg_add would suddenly refuse to work. :-) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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