Still, doesn't it seem like having uncovered this issue, that contact between Joerg and the quite active zfs team be established? I don't think its my "right" to had out the appropriate aliases.
I don't suscribe, but I believe there is a fairly active zfs-discuss alias (or something like that) on the OpenSolaris site. I'm sure a posting there would establish the communication link. - jek3 > From: John Plocher <John.Plocher at Sun.COM> ... > [removed ksh project from the distribution, this should be only going > out to the ARC community...] > > Joerg Schilling wrote: > >> A quick scan thru the tar related cases submitted after 2004/480 > >> (star) shows only two changes, neither of which should be difficult to > >> reconcile with star: > >> > > > > Does this mean that someone did even bypass the ARC mechanism when > > adding zfs ACL support to Sun tar? This would be of interest to me as we > > > > No, it means that I missed something when I did the above "quick scan" > of arc cases. > If the case you mentioned didn't include the word "tar" in its > description, I didn't > find it... > >> PSARC 2004/503 tar: alter efsize functionality > >> tar can currently overrun it's efsize variable and > >> subsequently dump core. See the following bug for > >> more details: > >> 4977739 *tar* coredumps when backing up files 8 gb > >> using mutiple volumes > >> > > > > Star uses a different and better method for multi-volume archives. > > > > > As long as it can *read* archives created by the above (and, maybe also > create > archives on demand that can be read by this older tar), I don't see a > problem... > > I would recommend people who have problems with it to use star > > which offers a documented multi-volume archive support. > > > As good as it may be, that advice doesn't help the people who ran into > 4977739.... > >> PSARC 2006/506 tar(1) support for compression/decompression > >> > > star supports this since 1997 and even more: > > > Which means that the effort needed to converge these projects should be > minimal. > > -John >
