Re: [Bug-tar] gnu tar: patch/featureadd

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for your letter.

>       The feature is a command line switch which allows tar to treat block
> devices with their contents, instead of the current behavior which does not
> include the contents of the block device.

If I'm not mistaken, the proposed example behavior:

>  tar -DSPc /dev/hdb[1-2] | cdrecord -dev=0,0,0

is equivalent to

(dd if=/dev/hdb1; dd if=/dev/hdb2) | tar cSP | cdrecord -dev=0,0,0

Am I missing something?

Regards,
Sergey