Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 21:43:00 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org> Cc: Rob Miracle <rwm@MPGN.COM>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: >8 char usernames going into 2.2.5? Message-ID: <11916.874730580@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 Sep 1997 19:45:02 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.970919194418.263B-100000@counterintelligence.ml.org>
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Because it would be really, really stupid to make a version of tar which generated tarballs that couldn't be read anywhere else. If you want robust formats, use cpio with -H newc or pax or something. The format of the tar file is already fixed by historical convention, as has been pointed out here numerous times, and copying device files with it is just silly. It's the wrong tool for the job and you should use cpio, pax, dump or any of a number of more suitable backup-with-full-fidelity utilities. Jordan > > What about something really, really useful like a tar that will tarball > the dev files with 32bit minor numbers? > > On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Rob Miracle wrote: > > > > Better than that, I've been hand patching 2.2-stable for some time now > > >to support longer usernames > > > > >> Doug (who would really like to see this done :) > > > > What about something really useful, like 4 byte UIDs? > > > > Rob > > > > >
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