On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Armistead, Jason <[email protected]> wrote: > My problem still remains ... and since I'm trying to shut off that old > Solaris 10 system, I'd like to know that the archives it generates are indeed > "standard-compliant" rather than ending up with gigabytes of "digital trash" > which are going to be unrecoverable on other systems (one of the reasons I > was trying to open my resultant archives with 7-Zip and WinZip).
The entire original email was focused on ustar functionality, by my read. Perhaps you can repeat your experiment, bearing in mind that you're expecting a GNU Tar archive, and let us know what happens? Also, 7-zip claims to support "TAR" format, but doesn't say which format - are you sure it's designed to support GNU Tar archives? If you create a tar file with --format=ustar, can you read it with 7-zip? Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
