>On Jan 17, 2009, at 4:29 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > >> A serious problem with GNU tar is that it is unreliable and in a >> signficant >> number of cases is unable to read back it's own archives. > >I've been using tar on linux since about 1996 and I've never had such >a failure, nor have I ever heard of anyone having one. I'm not saying >that it can't happen, I'm just saying that the experience of the >community is that's an extremely reliable tool.
Anyone he's ever unpacked a Solaris archive will see the problem (files unpacked at the wrong location) Clearly, if you live in a Linux world, you won't see the problem. But if you live in a Solaris world, it's a serious problem. Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
