Re: [Bug-tar] record size = x blocks?

[Mads Kiilerich]

On 03/19/2009 07:00 PM, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> > I think that an additional option, similar to
> > gcc's -W, would be in place.  For example, `tar --warning=record' would
> > enable emitting the record size warning.
> >
> > Opinions?
>
> Yuck.
>
> GNU tar already has way too many command line options.
>
> If people are going to have to change scripts to
> avoid these warnings, they may as well do it in
> a more robust way that won't break with other
> tar implementations.  "-B -b 1" is far more
> portable.

Sergey proposed an option to _enable_ the message, so no people are 
going to change scripts to avoid the warning.

/Mads