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From: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org>
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
cc: Rob Miracle <rwm@MPGN.COM>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: >8 char usernames going into 2.2.5? 
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Well, I use dump for now. But know that you mention it can someone explain
the major differnces between Linux NFS and FreeBSD NFS. besides that one
is in userspace etc. my problem is that being able to only put permissions
on one node in a filesystem is a bit restrictive and inflexible.

On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> Because it would be really, really stupid to make a version of tar
> which generated tarballs that couldn't be read anywhere else.
> 
> If you want robust formats, use cpio with -H newc or pax or something.
> The format of the tar file is already fixed by historical convention,
> as has been pointed out here numerous times, and copying device files
> with it is just silly.  It's the wrong tool for the job and you should
> use cpio, pax, dump or any of a number of more suitable
> backup-with-full-fidelity utilities.
> 
> 					Jordan
> 
> > 
> > What about something really, really useful like a tar that will tarball
> > the dev files with 32bit minor numbers?
> > 
> > On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Rob Miracle wrote:
> > 
> > > >  Better than that, I've been hand patching 2.2-stable for some time now
> > > >to support longer usernames
> > > 
> > > >> Doug (who would really like to see this done :)
> > > 
> > > What about something really useful, like 4 byte UIDs?
> > > 
> > > Rob
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> 
>