[illumos-Discuss] [ multi-extent files

[Joerg Schilling]

Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) wrote:

> Star supports POSIX.1-2001 since summer 2001. Star autodetects any supported 
> format and allows to select a suitable format in create mode. The default 
> format used in create mode is still based on POSIX.1-2001 with extensions.

Sorry for the typo. This should of course be:

The default 
format used in create mode is still based on POSIX.1-198 with extensions.

> Today, a major reason for not using a POSIX.1-2001 based archive format as 
> default is the exsistence of Sun-tar that is still unable to extract 
> POSIX.1-2001 based archives.

Jörg

-- 
 EMail:joerg at schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin
       js at cs.tu-berlin.de                (uni)  
       joerg.schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/
 URL:  http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily