From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 29 8:11:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from btclick.com (mta04.btfusion.com [62.172.195.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8B7337B432 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 08:11:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from dedog.argus-systems.co.uk ([217.32.156.111]) by btclick.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GNKKZF03.7HP for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 16:11:39 +0000 Received: (from fergus@localhost) by dedog.argus-systems.co.uk (8.11.6/8.11.1) id fATGBQj01673 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 16:11:26 GMT (envelope-from fergus) Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 16:11:26 +0000 From: fergus To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tar and nodump flag Message-ID: <20011129161126.C1163@dedog.argus-systems.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <15363.38257.236253.85237@hyde.lpds.sublink.org> <20011127144343.W421-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de> <9u5ied$1fjf$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9u5ied$1fjf$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>; from naddy@mips.inka.de on Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 02:58:21PM +0000 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 > > 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. this may be a little OT but does no body use pax ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message