Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 18:15:19 +0100 (CET) From: Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tar and nodump flag Message-ID: <20011129181421.M29843-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de> In-Reply-To: <9u5ied$1fjf$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>
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On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Christian Weisgerber wrote: CW>Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de> wrote: CW> CW>> Perhaps it makes sense to switch to star instead? The last version is CW>> Posix conform, supports extended headers and ACLs. According to the star CW>> developer (Joerg Schilling) GNU tar is severly broken. CW> CW>Unfortunately, star has it's own share of problems: CW> CW>- A highly idiosyncratic command syntax that is incompatible with CW> traditional tar syntax. I think this is a killer. Well, yes. CW>- It doesn't support incremental backups. That isn't a problem in CW> itself, but it's a feature our GNU tar currently has and people CW> probably don't want to lose. CW>- An idiosyncratic build system. I know that. I have a discussion every other day with the guy about how great it is :-) harti -- harti brandt, http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private brandt@fokus.fhg.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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