[illumos-Discuss] [ multi-extent files

[Laurent Blume]

Quoting Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de>:
> The -E flag does not create POSIX compliant extensions.

Obviously, since POSIX limits the filename to 100 chars... Any tar  
command that accepts more can't produce POSIX-compliant archives,  
correct?
That is made clear in pax(1).
So the question would be rather if full compliance to a standard  
defined 20 years ago is required.
Having tools that default to different levels of compliance is  
certainly confusing, as the original post proves.

Laurent