Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 20:43:01 -0400 From: Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org> To: Bjoern Fischer <bfischer@Techfak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> Cc: Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net>, Lou Katz <lou@metron.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tar broken for large files? Message-ID: <3539C7B0-69F8-11D6-84C0-00039312C852@automagic.org> In-Reply-To: <20020517232616.GC60644@no-support.loc>
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On Friday, May 17, 2002, at 07:26 , Bjoern Fischer wrote: > On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 05:56:21AM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: >> also, how about using pax ? >> >> FYI, for writting, use pax -w -x ustar -f /dev/sa0 >> and for reading, use pax -r -pp -f /dev/sa0 > > IMHO pax(1) is one of the most underestimated archivers in the > UNIX environment. > > What about propagating pax(1) and wrap the tar(1) command line > interface into pax for compatibility. OpenBSD's tar is pax, fwtw. Has been for a long time. jabley@maggie[131]$ ls -ali $(which tar) $(which pax) 7430 -r-xr-xr-x 3 root bin 303104 Apr 29 2001 /bin/pax 7430 -r-xr-xr-x 3 root bin 303104 Apr 29 2001 /bin/tar jabley@maggie[132]$ uname -a OpenBSD maggie 2.9 GENERIC#34 sparc jabley@maggie[133]$ Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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