Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > On 03/12/13 02:03, Glauber Costa wrote: > > With that, it is extremely useful when unpacking tar archives, to be > > able to add that offset to the end result. Specifying a user won't help, > > since the tar archive can have many > > Sorry, I'm not following this part. Why can't you extract the > tar image in a context where the mapping is already in place? > If user "foo" is host user ID 4000, for example, and you're running > in an environment where uid 0 maps to 10000, then presumably > user "foo" is namespace user 14000, which is what you want, no?
Also, TAR should map by name rather then by uid in the first attempt. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily