From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 29 7:31:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [212.227.14.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFC0E37B422 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 07:31:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 169T9T-000652-00; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 16:31:03 +0100 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fATEwL748970 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 15:58:21 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: tar and nodump flag Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 14:58:21 +0000 (UTC) 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> Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Harti Brandt 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