Re: [Bug-tar] file name too long to be stored in a GNU multivolume header

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Curt Blank <address@hidden> ha escrit:

> Thank you. Didn't see the --format option when I do a "man tar" but I 
> now see it when I do a "tar --help".

Please see GNU tar documentation. The `--format' option is described
in the chapter 8, "Controlling the Archive Format". The infornation is
also available on line, see

  http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_chapter/tar_3.html#IDX71

for a description of the `--format' command line option, and

  http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_chapter/tar_8.html

for a description of various archive formats.

> Just curious as to the answer to Jörg question below.
> >Does this mean you introduced an incompatible alternative for multi-volume

The meaning of "incompatible" is not entirely clear to me. The GNU tar
documentation states clearly that "multi-volume support is a GNU
extension and the archives created in this mode should be read only
using GNU `tar'" (see section 9.6.1 "Archives Longer than One Tape or
Disk", http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_section/tar_75.html).
However, multi-volume archives in pax format are readable and
extractable almost with any tar implementation, see
http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/tar_140.html for a
description.

Regards,
Sergey