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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: using tar on nfs file system.
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.175418.18754@alphalpha.com>
Date: 19 Jun 91 17:54:18 GMT
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In article <523f42f3.1bc5b@pisa.citi.umich.edu> rees@citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees) writes:
>The funny thing is that if they had just taken the Berkeley tar and compiled
>it, instead of mucking with it, it would work just fine.

Ah, but then it wouldn't preserve ACLs or ObjectIDs correctly, and
tons of people were complaining about that, so support for that was
put in.  Clearly a mistake was made in the process - the options should
have been distinct and the code separate, but apparently not.  Although
at least it doesn't just go and copy the NFS object and not complain!

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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.