Josh Paetzel wrote: > Problem: I need to create a jail image that I can deploy on multiple > servers, ala a generic apache jail or postgresql jail or whatever. I > need to be able to simply explode this image in to a directory and > have it work, I'd also like to be able to compress the image because > it occasionally has to go over lower-speed WAN links. > > Here are the tools that I've investigated and the problems I've had > with them: > > tar, cpio, pax: All 3 of these tools have problems with various > combinations of meta-data, links, and things like device nodes.
What exactly is the problem with tar (bsdtar)? It handles hard links, file flags (be sure to specify the -p option when extracting) and everything else that's necessary. By the way, you don't need device nodes anymore because of DEVFS. I think device nodes outside of DEVFS don't work anymore anyway, so they're useless. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster." -- Niklaus Wirth _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"