On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 02:07:16PM -0500, eric wrote: > It seems that tar(1) is only able to archive filenames of 100 characters or > less. However, ufs can handle (I've been testing using touch(1)) filenames > up to 255 characters. I tried to modify the following in src/bin/pax/tar.h
You can't do anything about it, it's a limitation of the ustar format. One possible approach is to store an extra table of contents in the archive that you will use to restore the file names from their shortened form. In fact, it's what the pkg tools do...
