From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IbHai-0003Hr-9Q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:17:20 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l8SF6W5E002230; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:06:32 GMT Received: from mailgw11.fraunhofer.de (mailgw11.fraunhofer.de [153.96.1.23]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l8SExcWF024474 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:59:38 GMT Received: from mailgw11.fraunhofer.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailgw11.fraunhofer.de (8.13.5+/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l8SExcLu019144 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:59:38 +0200 (MEST) Received: from pluto.fokus.fraunhofer.de (pluto.fokus.fraunhofer.de [195.37.77.164]) by mailgw11.fraunhofer.de (8.13.5+/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l8SExbpF019132 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:59:37 +0200 (MEST) Received: from EXCHSRV.fokus.fraunhofer.de (bohr [10.147.9.231]) by pluto.fokus.fraunhofer.de (8.13.7/8.13.7) with SMTP id l8SExb7j007024 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:59:37 +0200 (MEST) Received: from burner ([10.147.65.166]) by EXCHSRV.fokus.fraunhofer.de with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:59:37 +0200 Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:55:51 +0200 From: Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: star Message-ID: <46fd15f7.jD8I6aeMGyG0t0s7%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> User-Agent: nail 11.22 3/20/05 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 28 Sep 2007 14:59:37.0111 (UTC) FILETIME=[30160270:01C801E0] X-Fraunhofer-Email-Policy: accepted Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id l8SF6W5X002230 X-Archives-Salt: 4790bb0b-57de-4739-b4b3-027a184929f2 X-Archives-Hash: 329ce528a67b4b86864ffa6a39ecd617 Let me try to give some information on star star by default writes to stdout and already supports 7z compression including auto-format/comression detection. You need to install a working= =20 "p7zip" in your PATH. Star is 100% compatible to tar, a big problem is that GNU tar is not 100% compatible to tar. Star is not only a TAR archiver but a complete solution. - Star is an archiver library supports the most important archive=20 formats:=20 - OLD UNIXv7 tar - OLD BSD tar - POSIX-1.1988 TAR - POSIX-1.2001 TAR - CPIO - the old star format from 1985 (the first tar with special file support) - Star extensions on POSIX-1.1988 TAR - Star extensions on POSIX-1.2001 TAR - this include _working_ incremental dump/restore - Star's upper layer supports several CLI variants depending on av[0]: - Star - the UNIX compatible CLI that star introduced in 1982 under the name "star", all features of all archiveers are available. - TAR - the SUSv2 (UNIX-98) TAR CLI - gtar - all useful features of GNU tar 1.14 - pax - the POSIX archiver - cpio - the SUSv2 (UNIX-98) cpio CLI - Star has a built in find(1) that works in archive/extract/list/copy mode. It helps to make star very powerful as this find includes -chown/-chgrp/-ghmod to on-the-fly change incore information during archive processing. - Star implements highly optimized buffering for optimum I/O thoughput - Star typically needs 1/3 of the user CPU time than GNU tar - Star supports fully correct archiving of sparse files if the OS supports to read the hole list. - Star supports ACLs in an OS independent way. - Star supports Linux specific features (like file flags and XATTR). GNU tar does not implement a single Linux specific feature. - Star implementes ~ 2x as many features as GNU tar does. - The star archive format extensions are fully documented. For more information see http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/star.html The main problem on many Linux distributions is that they do not actively maintain recent star packages. If you believe that star called as "tar" does not behave correctly (as de= cribed in http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/tar.html, send me a = report! J=F6rg --=20 EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) J=F6rg Schilling D-13353 = Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) =20 schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogs= pot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/s= chily --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list