GNU-tar vs dump(1)

[Mike McNally]

In article <4601 at xenna.Encore.COM> bzs at Encore.COM (Barry Shein) writes:
>
>Another limitation of using tar (which, again, I don't know if gnutar
>attacked) is restoring device entries. 

POSIX tar format has provisions for this.  It also has provisions for longer
file names (not MAXPATHLEN, but longer than 100 bytes).

Does GNU tar have a mechanism for creating an artificial hierarchy on the
tape?  In our tar, we added a switch like -C that specifies a prefix for
each following file name.  This is very convenient (not for backup; for
file transfer).

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