Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 14:58:21 +0000 (UTC) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tar and nodump flag Message-ID: <9u5ied$1fjf$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <15363.38257.236253.85237@hyde.lpds.sublink.org> <20011127144343.W421-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de>
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Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de> wrote: > Perhaps it makes sense to switch to star instead? The last version is > Posix conform, supports extended headers and ACLs. According to the star > developer (Joerg Schilling) GNU tar is severly broken. Unfortunately, star has it's own share of problems: - A highly idiosyncratic command syntax that is incompatible with traditional tar syntax. I think this is a killer. - It doesn't support incremental backups. That isn't a problem in itself, but it's a feature our GNU tar currently has and people probably don't want to lose. - An idiosyncratic build system. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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