Linda Walsh <suse@tlinx.org> wrote:
Brian K. White wrote:
I (OP) have seen no such discussion in any docs. When looking up tar, such as in a Linux reference manual (e.g. ISBN: 0-7821-2735-5 or 0-7821-2341-4), tar --help, or man tar, there's been no explicit or implicit mention that tar is anything but GNU tar,
The tar manpage talks about different formats that you can use (as well as supporting 2 types of incremental backups):
-g, --listed-incremental=FILE handle new GNU-format incremental backup -G, --incremental handle old GNU-format incremental backup
Be cyareful with these options: gtar is unable to reatore it's incrementals in case directories have been renamed in specific ways.
-H, --format=FORMAT create archive of the given format FORMAT is one of the following: gnu GNU tar 1.13.x format oldgnu GNU format as per tar <= 1.12 pax POSIX 1003.1-2001 (pax) format posix same as pax ustar POSIX 1003.1-1988 (ustar) format v7 old V7 tar format --old-archive, --portability same as --format=v7 --pax-option=keyword[[:]=value][,keyword[[:]=value]]... control pax keywords --posix same as --format=posix
--- star used to be notably better than gnu tar (supporting ACL's and ExtAttrs) long before anything in gnu did), but with the core dumps, and gnu working to catchup...
I did never see any coredump from star and you did never report such a problem, I therefore assume that such problems do not exist. Jörg -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org