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Date:      Mon, 26 Nov 2001 02:43:59 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        "Walter C. Pelissero" <walter@pelissero.org>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: tar and nodump flag
Message-ID:  <20011126024359.C41312@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <15355.47042.573852.420151@hyde.lpds.sublink.org>; from walter@pelissero.org on Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 02:18:42PM %2B0000
References:  <15355.47042.573852.420151@hyde.lpds.sublink.org>

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On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 02:18:42PM +0000, Walter C. Pelissero wrote:
> How about adding the nodump flag processing in tar?

This would be a *bad* idea.  It would diverge our tar even more than it
already is -- which is so bad it isn't trival to update to the latest
version (ours is many years behind).

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