From: Peter Staubach (Peter.Staubach@Sun.COM)
Date: 05/31/02-10:36:15 AM Z
Message-Id: <200205311538.g4VFcS119015@amunet.Central.Sun.COM> Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 09:36:15 -0600 (MDT) From: Peter Staubach <Peter.Staubach@Sun.COM> Subject: Re: tar for NFS V4 > > On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 03:21:10PM -0700, Eric Kadison wrote: > > Has anyone looked into updating the tar program to support new NFS V4 > > features (e.g. the new attributes)? > > "tar" wouldn't know NFS from a hole in the ground. > > If there are APIs in the OSes on which "tar" runs that allow > applications such as "tar" access to those features, the "tar" that > comes with those OSes might be updated to use those APIs. In this vein, the various archivers delivered with Solaris 9 have been updated to understand the extended attributes model which was introduced in Solaris 9. As Guy said, these things shouldn't be file system specific or over the wire protocol specific. ps
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