Fredrich Maney <fredrichma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > And I totally agree that Solaris will not benefit from Joerg-style postings
> > -- as long-time Linux user I saw discussion he participated in on debian
> > maillists and I know which reaction it causes among people.
>
> There are many issues in lists and email with regards to phrasing,
> particularly
> when speakers of multiple languages and different cultures are involved and I
> do not disagree that Joerg could have worded his complaint more sensitively.
> However, his point that there are some significant - if not often experienced
> -
> reliability issues with GNU tar is valid and backed up by concrete examples.
> If
> some people's feelings are hurt by that, it's unfortunate. However, it
> does invalidate
> his point.
I personally see many reliability issues with GNU tar each year (typically on
each one or two months). To be more concrete: I am either myself a victim of the
problem or I am informed by other people who discovered the problem.
People who always only use a small subset of the GNU tar features and who only
do this on the same platform may never see a problem in their lifetime.
While porting cdrtools to "Haiku" (a free BeOS clone), I was just again a
victim
of a GNU tar bug that reported by me in 1993 already. GNU tar did not extract
the whole archive but stopped in the middle. I had to play with the archive
content until I was able to extract a suffcient amount of data to compile star.
The question is: do you personally like to rely on something that may hit you
any time in the future when you do not await it?
Jörg
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