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Let me try to give some information on star |
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star by default writes to stdout and already supports 7z compression |
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including auto-format/comression detection. You need to install a working |
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"p7zip" in your PATH. |
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Star is 100% compatible to tar, a big problem is that GNU tar is not 100% |
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compatible to tar. |
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Star is not only a TAR archiver but a complete solution. |
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- Star is an archiver library supports the most important archive |
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formats: |
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- OLD UNIXv7 tar |
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- OLD BSD tar |
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- POSIX-1.1988 TAR |
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- POSIX-1.2001 TAR |
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- CPIO |
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- the old star format from 1985 (the first tar with special |
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file support) |
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- Star extensions on POSIX-1.1988 TAR |
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- Star extensions on POSIX-1.2001 TAR - this include _working_ |
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incremental dump/restore |
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- Star's upper layer supports several CLI variants depending on av[0]: |
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- Star - the UNIX compatible CLI that star introduced in 1982 |
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under the name "star", all features of all archiveers are |
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available. |
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- TAR - the SUSv2 (UNIX-98) TAR CLI |
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- gtar - all useful features of GNU tar 1.14 |
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- pax - the POSIX archiver |
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- cpio - the SUSv2 (UNIX-98) cpio CLI |
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- Star has a built in find(1) that works in archive/extract/list/copy |
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mode. It helps to make star very powerful as this find includes |
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-chown/-chgrp/-ghmod to on-the-fly change incore information during |
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archive processing. |
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- Star implements highly optimized buffering for optimum I/O thoughput |
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- Star typically needs 1/3 of the user CPU time than GNU tar |
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- Star supports fully correct archiving of sparse files if the OS |
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supports to read the hole list. |
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- Star supports ACLs in an OS independent way. |
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- Star supports Linux specific features (like file flags and XATTR). |
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GNU tar does not implement a single Linux specific feature. |
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- Star implementes ~ 2x as many features as GNU tar does. |
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- The star archive format extensions are fully documented. |
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For more information see http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/star.html |
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The main problem on many Linux distributions is that they do not actively |
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maintain recent star packages. |
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If you believe that star called as "tar" does not behave correctly (as decribed |
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in http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/tar.html, send me a report! |
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Jörg |
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EMail:joerg@××××××××××××××××××××××××.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin |
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js@××××××××××××.de (uni) |
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schilling@××××××××××××××××.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ |
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URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily |
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