"Robert B. Carleton": > Unfortunately, the FreeBSD pax command lacks the pax format supported by > OpenBSD. I'm backing up paths that exceed the limits of ustar, so I'm > looking at alternatives.
Use FreeBSD's tar(1). > I realize I could just use the various versions of tar or cpio, but I > prefer the pax command line from a scripting standpoint. I was looking > at the sv4crc, or sv4cpio formats as an alternative that is supported by > both OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Those are similarly obsolete as ustar. libarchive-formats(5) on FreeBSD mentions limitations: "The SVR4 format uses eight-digit hexadecimal values for all header fields. This limits file size to 4GB, and also limits the mtime and other fields to 32 bits." -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
