Re: tar | tar vs dd vs cpio (was Re: writing a MBR to a non-bootdisk that...)

[Jim Bonnet]

Net Llama! wrote:

On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, steve rader wrote:


>Also, here's one more reason to avoid tar: it has a 100 char
>max file name length restriction.  I suspect cpio and certainly
>dd don't have that problem.


Huh?  Where is this documented?  I'm pretty sure i've never run into this
before.

hm.. well, I think this is a SUN thing, and an old-school tar problem as well..Have a quick google check its there.

--jim

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