Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Margot Miller wrote: > >> - /usr/bin/star executable added >> > > Joerg just raised an important point on opensolaris-discuss - > star has a name-clash with Sun's SAM-QFS star command (which > much to Joerg's consternation is based on GNU tar sources > instead of his). > > From PSARC/2001/599 it looks like SAM/QFS ships its star > command in /opt/SUNWsamfs/sbin/star so there's not a filename > clash, but there could be a $PATH ordering issue for SAM/QFS > admins. (I've never used it, so I don't know if they most > often use it from $PATH, scripts or other means.) > > (There's also an open case 2007/588 for the SAM/QFS 5.0 release > where this issue may also need to be addressed.) > > > The SAM-QFS star is provided as a disaster recovery tool to recover data from archive tape. As Joerg points out, the original tar format was inadequate for all types and sizes of files. The portability of archive format is very important to customers, as to not lock them into any given O/S, hardware nor tar. It is not used on a regular basis, except when users would do so on their own. The "sbin" directory is primarily used for SAM-QFS administrators, developers and testers.
While this clash will exist, in my opinion, the clash is not likely to happen. I'm adding the SAM-QFS PSARC team (as Margot did) to this thread. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Rick Matthews email: Rick.Matthews at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. phone:+1(651) 554-1518 1270 Eagan Industrial Road phone(internal): 54418 Suite 160 fax: +1(651) 554-1540 Eagan, MN 55121-1231 USA main: +1(651) 554-1500 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
