/usr/bin/tar on solaris 10. My comment was incorrect. I was referring to the preservation of hard links. I need to investigate the status of this in the various verions of tar.
Thanks, -Steve L. On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 10:59:10AM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Steve Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > tar is usually not the best archiving tool, as tends to deal poorly with > > symbolic links. There are some examples of migrating a zone using both > > ufs (via pax) and zfs (via zfs send/recieve). > > Please elaborate what you like to point to when using the term "tar"? > > The Sun tar implementation has _security_ bugs related to archives that > contain > symbolic links but the same problem applies to the OpenGroup owned "pax" > implementation currently found at /usr/bin/pax. > > "star" on the other side has no known issues related to symbolic links. > > What are you talking about? > > J?rg > > -- > EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) J?rg Schilling D-13353 Berlin > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ > URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
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