From: Guy Harris (guy@netapp.com)
Date: 05/31/02-02:05:02 PM Z
Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 12:05:02 -0700 From: Guy Harris <guy@netapp.com> Subject: Re: tar for NFS V4 Message-ID: <20020531120502.B10225@cranford.netapp.com> On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 10:20:59AM -0700, Eric Kadison wrote: > 1. is aware of the new attributes available under NFS V4. e.g. tar can > currently set the last modified time of a file during extraction. Wouldn't > it be desirable to also be able to set the last backup time? Yes, it would. What's the OS API to get and set the last backup time on those UNIXes that support NFS v4? :-) (I.e., my original comment still applies. The mere fact that NFSv4 supports a particular feature does *not* mean that all OSes supporting NFSv4 magically support that feature.) > Furthermore, GNU tar has a special ability to archive sparse files (I don't > know how it knows sparseness). GNU tar 1.11.8, at least, infers the sparseness of the file by checking the file size against the number of blocks allocated for it.
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