On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 04:32:56PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > People do not have interest because they don't know and this is because VENDORS > do not put star on the distributions. > > If you only use tar x or tar c, and don't know what else is supported you > believe that GNU tar is sufficient.
Hmm, I almost never have used any more than that. Tar never seems like the solution when needing more than that. Perhaps that is just the way GNU tar is then. > Instead for unknown reasons, vendors put the non-standard compliant GNu tar on. > Is it really that Linux people dislike standards as much as M$ does? I didn't know that tar was an actual defined standard. It makes sense to have one, but I never thought about it before. > - Star has a lot of features I use every day that are missing in > GNU tar. If people start using star on a daily base they never will > use GNu tar anymore because it lacks important things that make life > easier. Other than ACLs, what nice features does it have that you use regularly? I might learn something useful here. > - GNUtar cannot feed DLT tapes fast enough. The result is that the > media wears out. Star allows to set up e.g. 128 MB or more of FIFO > and gives streaming reserve for 30+ seconds. Well I don't have a tape drive, but maybe it will write to disk faster. > - GNUtar does not do a good job with incremental dumps because it uses > a badly defined media format. Star will be the first program that > gives the same or more than you get with ufsdump/ufsrestore. > Star will do this portable and OS/FS independant. I haven't done any incremental tar files. Never seemed to go well with compressed tar files. > - GNUtar gives many compatibility problems because it ignores standards. > Note that GNU tar has been started in 1989 from PD tar aka. SUG tar > and still ignores even POSIX.1-1988. Star implements POSIX.1-2001 for > 10 months now. Well I mostly extract tar files, and they seem to have come out OK. Any tar I have made has probably been for my own use. > For sake, many users are force to change now ;-0 > > Star is the only backup tool on Linux that allows to archive ACLs. ACLs as in what XFS and a few other filesystems have in addition to the standard old rwxrwxrwx/uid/gid stuff? > If you like to know that's wrong with TAR on Linux, check the new program > "tartest" that comes with the latest star alpha. > > Also check the testscripts anf archives from: > > ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/star/testscripts/ Hmm, interesting. May be worth considering. apt-get install star. All done. :) I wonder if 1.5a02 is fairly up to date. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
