On 7/14/05, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/14/05, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The main features of GNU tar is compliance problems. > > I recommend to avoid GNU tar whereever possible. > > > > You cannot replace /usr/bin/tar with a program that does not implement > > the features os /usr/bin/tar without creating hard to track down problems. > > Could "star", be used as a replacement for Solaris tar program without > causing *any* incompatibilities? Since you so graciously released it > under the CDDL, it seems like it would be idea as a replacement. I > certainly find it much faster then GNU tar, and faster than Solaris > tar.
This is another creation that I use ALL the time and what is really important about star is that you can trust it. If you use a command line like : star -c -p -acl -sparse -Hexustar -fifo -fs=128x1m -fifostats -time file=dest.tar -C source_dir . Then you can trust that you just got everything. When you extract you get everything. Perfectly. I LOVE it ! :-) Oh .. and its really fast. Dennis _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
