Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sat, 17 Jul 2004 11:43:39 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NEW TAR
Message-ID:  <20040717184339.GA64464@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <40F963D8.6010201@freebsd.org>
References:  <40F963D8.6010201@freebsd.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

--6TrnltStXW4iwmi0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline

On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 10:37:28AM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:

> What are the differences?

>  * Portability:  gtar is portable to many different Unix and non-Unix
>    systems.  bsdtar supports standard file formats that are widely
>    supported by other implementations.  There are efforts to port
>    bsdtar to other platforms.

* Less known bugginess: gtar on sparc64 has sporadic problems,
e.g. attempting to use all available VM.  bsdtar doesn't have obvious
problems on other FreeBSD architectures.

Kris

--6TrnltStXW4iwmi0
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
Content-Disposition: inline

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD)

iD8DBQFA+XNbWry0BWjoQKURAm25AKCpf3/aHicQ7774z0oZxR7YVIr9EQCfWYQj
fZQo0xv4FLFgpxERcNakrRA=
=uWc0
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--6TrnltStXW4iwmi0--



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20040717184339.GA64464>