Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:35:04 -0700 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Emanuel Strobl <Emanuel.strobl@gmx.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cpio and tar are loosing flags (and a panic message without trace) Message-ID: <43305658.5080200@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200508270458.j7R4wI5f076140@apollo.backplane.com> References: <200508262004.54637@harrymail> <200508270316.j7R3GE7P075733@apollo.backplane.com> <200508270523.50609@harrymail> <200508270458.j7R4wI5f076140@apollo.backplane.com>
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Matthew Dillon wrote: > : > :I guess cpio and tar really should take care about flags. Am I wrong? > > cpio won't do it, tar won't do it, dump only does whole partitions, > cpdup is not an archiver. Hmm. Actually: * Joerg Schilling's "star" has done this for many years. * bsdtar has likewise supported it for a long time (apart from recent breakage <sigh>). There's very little precedent for flags support in cpio format, though a cpio that supported modern tar formats should be able to support it. Pax should support it (though ours does not currently). Tim
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