From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 26 2:44:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2778C37B417 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 02:44:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id fAQAhxh41438; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 02:43:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 02:43:59 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: "Walter C. Pelissero" Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tar and nodump flag Message-ID: <20011126024359.C41312@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <15355.47042.573852.420151@hyde.lpds.sublink.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15355.47042.573852.420151@hyde.lpds.sublink.org>; from walter@pelissero.org on Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 02:18:42PM +0000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 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 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). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message