[illumos-Developer] ejecting the archivers from illumos-gate

[Dennis Clarke]

> In this special case, I have a specific behavior of the Sun (and SVR4????)
> cpio
> in mind.
>
> Sun cpio is able to extract files on a live system without killing running
> applicaions and with being able to restore the original file in case the
> extract was not successful. Star (if not called as "cpio") needs the
> option
> "-install" to do the same, other implementations do not implement this
> feature
> at all.
>
> Jörg

Options I use every day .. all the time :

   star -x -xdir -xdot -U -install -v { -z | -bz } -fs=128m -fifostats
-time file=somepathname

Works like a charm.


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Dennis Clarke
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