On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:03:19 -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :Reviewing FreeBSD mailing lists was quite challenging, but here's some > issu= :... > > Cool. The only problem area that I see is the 'l' option. That > option is (or was) used a *LOT* by people using tar to back-up > partitions. I think we can survive as long as anyone attempting to > use the option gets a fatal error which describes the situation in > clear terms. > > I have never used --multi-volume or --use-compress-program. Those > are things that probably ought to be piped anyhow. > > Were there any issues regarding compatibility between bsdtar and > gtar? e.g. someone taring up with gtar and detarring with bsdtar, or > vise-versa, for archive transfers between machines ?
The bsdtar has been tested and enabled by default in the FreeBSD ports tree, so I think it works very well. :-) Cheers, Mezz > -Matt
