Re: [Bug-tar] file name too long to be stored in a GNU multivolume header

[Curt Blank]

Ok, when I try and use --format=pax in my production backups they all 
fail with:

tar: GNU features wanted on incompatible archive format

So it appears I use an option that using --format=pax does not like. 
Where can I find what tar options are ok with --format=pax and what 
options are not?

And if I can't remove an option that is not compatible with 
--format=pax, what other way do I have using tar to overcome the 
original file name length problem on spanned volumes?

-Curt

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Tim Kientzle <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > > Star's archive formats are documented in man -s 4 star or ...
> > > here: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/man/star/star.4.html
> > I was hoping you would have documented the NTFS/NFSv4 ACL
> > support you were recently working on.  Do you have examples
> > of that yet?
>
> No, not yet. My first preference is to publish star-1.5 and then
> implement the  NTFS/NFSv4 ACL support. The textual format for
> the ACL entries has been negotiated with Sun and the implementation
> should be already in libsec. For the high level part (e.g. whether
> I need to intruduce something like SCHILY.acl.acltype), I am not ready
> with my decisions. I expect to add the code in early 2008.
>
>
>
> > Those that are interested in such things may also find some
> > useful info in the tar.5 manpage distributed with bsdtar/libarchive
> > and included in all recent FreeBSD releases:
> >
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/libarchive/tar.5.txt
>
> Thank you for this pointer!
>
> Jörg