On 5/24/07, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 24/05/07, BVK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/24/07, Richard L. Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > If their documentation is accurate, the current version can read
> > and write POSIX tar archives, it just doesn't create them by default
> > (requires --format=posix option to do so). While they may have some
> > reason for that, I have trouble imagining what it might be. I can
> > understand backwards compatibility, but for that, it should be enough
> > that it _can_ automatically read or (possibly with an option) write either
> > format, and not matter so much which it does by default, in which case
> > the default for writing really ought to be the standards compliant format.
>
> Also their NEWS file says setting DEFAULT_ARCHIVE_FORMAT environment
> variable to POSIX will select POSIX output format by default.
>
> If this is the _only_ problem with GNU tar, then we can close this
> thread now :-)
Its performance sucks compared to star?
Seriously. I can't think of any reason why I would use gnu tar instead
of star if I had a choice.
check what redhat has to say about star and tar
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Deployment_Guide-en-US/s1-acls-archiving.html
nacho
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